| Course label : | Tutorials in Physics |
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| Teaching departement : | CMA / |
| Teaching manager : | Madam CHRISTELLE FAIVRE-PIERRET |
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| Potential ects : | 0 |
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| Code and label (hp) : | ENSCL_CPI_M3_1_2_1 - Physique |
Education team
Teachers : Madam CHRISTELLE FAIVRE-PIERRET / Mister JULIEN DAQUIN
External contributors (business, research, secondary education): various temporary teachers
Summary
The physics course unit in the second year of the integrated preparatory programme (CPI) is organised into two sections: a disciplinary portion (called the "Physics section") comprising lectures and tutorials and an experimental portion (called the "Experimental Physics section") comprising practical work. These two sections are interdependent. > "PHYSICS" SECTION (10 ECTS) The physics course during the second year of the preparatory cycle is an opportunity to use and build on the concepts learned during the first year (mechanics of material points, thermodynamic assessments in closed systems, static fields) and to cover continuum physics: fluid mechanics, physics of waves, transport phenomena. INTRODUCTION TO VECTOR OPERATORS FLUID STATICS - Determining the pressure field in a fluid (physical quantity, incompressible fluid) at mechanical rest - Calculation of the resultant of the pressure forces exerted on a solid wall FLUID MECHANICS - Fluid kinematics - Perfect fluid flows - Steady flow of real fluids (Duvet and Poiseuille models, Reynolds dimensionless criterion) MECHANICAL WAVES - General information on progressive waves - Propagation of sound waves in fluid media (liquid, perfect gas) PHYSICAL OPTICS - Light sources, Scalar model of light - Two-wave interference - Diffraction of light by a single slit and by a network - Polarisation of light ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN SPACE AND MATTER - Postulates of electromagnetism - Propagation of electromagnetic waves in space and matter (metals, plasma media and linear isotropic homogeneous dielectric media) - Reflection-transmission at the interface between two dielectric media - LHI magnetic media TRANSPORT PHENOMENA - Thermal conduction - Diffusion of matter - Analogy in transport phenomena
Educational goals
Acquire basic knowledge of the different physical concepts discussed during the year (the "physics section") Establish and implement a "strategy" to solve a problem (break down the problem, define the useful physical laws, etc.) Use dimensional analysis and relevance analysis to verify the consistency of a result Know how to establish a LOCAL assessment (conservation of mass, quantity of movement and energy), know how to integrate a local equation (with separate variables only) Establish the analytical expression of a field of scalars or vectors, and interpret the expression found Put an expression in dimensionless form, introduce the order of magnitude analysis and the concept of dimensionless criterion (in view of its use in the engineering programme)
Sustainable development goals
Knowledge control procedures
Continuous Assessment
Comments: Continuous assessment:
Five two-hour tests
One three-hour test at the end of the year
(excerpts and adapted from competitive examination subjects, in addition to questions from the course)
Students must show that they understood and that they know how to meticulously reproduce the course material. They must be able to reproduce a reasoning or a resolution method seen during the tutorials and/or in class.
Online resources
Summary sheets for each chapter are made available online (course syllabus, prerequisites, knowledge and know-how to be mastered at the end of the lecture/tutorial), along with tutorial statement worksheets, and corrections of exercises not covered in the session
Pedagogy
90 hours of class 70 hours of tutorials
Sequencing / learning methods
| Number of hours - Lectures : | 0 |
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| Number of hours - Tutorial : | 30 |
| Number of hours - Practical work : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Seminar : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Half-group seminar : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TEA (Autonomous learning) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in TNE (Non-supervised activities) : | 0 |
| Number of hours in CB (Fixed exams) : | 0 |
| Number of student hours in PER (Personal work) : | 0 |
| Number of hours - Projects : | 0 |
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic concepts, mastery of calculation methods and tools discussed in the first year of the integrated preparatory cycle.