Physics for Scientists Engineers, with Modern （物理的科学家和工程师,与现代）.pdf

Lecture PowerPoints Chapter 1 Physics for Scientists Engineers, with Modern Physics, 4th edition Giancoli Final Grade Determination •  Homework 20% •  Midterms 50% •  Final 30% CAVEAT: If you peg the Final, that will be your course grade. That is, if at the end of the course you demonstate thet “the light has gone on.” Then your grade will reflect that. Chapter 1 •  Tooling up •  Units, and unit conversions •  Accuracy and significant figures •  Dimensional analysis •  Estimating •  Matter and Interactions •  Principles – predict the future •  Scalars and vectors •  Math Review •  One Dimensional Motion Units The system of units we will use is the System International (SI) ; the units of the fundamental quantities are: •  Length – meter •  Mass – kilogram •  Time – second Fundamental Physical Quantities and Their Units Unit prefixes for powers of 10, used in the SI system: Accuracy and Significant Figures The number of significant figures represents the accuracy with which a number is known. Terminal zeroes after a decimal point are significant figures: 2.00 has 3 significant figures 2 has 1 significant figure. Accuracy and Significant Figures If numbers are written in scientific notation, it is clear how many significant figures there are: 6. × 1024 has one 6.1 × 1024 has two 6.14 × 1024 has three …and so on. Calculators typically show many more digits than are significant. It is important to know which are accurate and which are meaningless. Scientific Notation Scientific notation: use powers of 10 for numbers that are not between 1 and 10 (or, often, between 0.1 and 100): When multiplying numbers togethe