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This module is for 2nd year Physiotherapy students. The aim is to enable learners to understand orthopedics conditions (fractures) and the principles of assessment and management of traumatic and orthopedic conditions.

This Module provides a working knowledge of vector analysis and classical mechanics. Students will be able to analyse physical situations and physical phenomena from the fundamental principles related to classical mechanics. The general objectives of this Module are at two levels: Students will gain the knowledge and will develop the capacity to observe, to analyse, to apply, to interpret, and perform hands on activities related to mechanics.

This Module provides a working knowledge of vector analysis and classical mechanics. Students will be able to analyse physical situations and physical phenomena from the fundamental principles related to classical mechanics. The general objectives of this Module are at two levels: Students will gain the knowledge and will develop the capacity to observe, to analyse, to apply, to interpret, and perform hands on activities related to mechanics.

This course will cover the topics of one trimester of Physics course. We will use a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Physics, available via UR-CE’s Connexions project.

The fundamental concepts in the course will be introduced via the Concept Development Approach developed at UR-CE. In this approach, we will develop the concepts you need to know from experimental observations and scientific reasoning rather than simply telling you the concepts and then asking you to simply memorize or apply them.

Recommended Background: The class can be taken by someone with no prior experience in physics. However, some prior familiarity with the basics of physics is desirable as we will cover some elements only briefly. For example, a prior high school physics class would be helpful.

This Module provides a working knowledge of elastic properties of matter, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, basic concepts of heat and thermodynamics, laws of thermodynamics and elements of kinetic theory of gases.

Electricity and magnetism Module

This module aims to introduce basic concepts in electricity and magnetism. It also provides students with an understanding of the physics embodied in Maxwell’s equations. It is intended to lay the foundation of students before they encounter hard-core engineering subjects. The module prepares the students for future modules in the second, third and fourth years dealing with wave propagation and electromagnetism phenomena.

The course aims to develop in the student the ability to understand physics phenomena and related instrumental techniques relevant to Biology. The module introduces fundamental laws driving the three theoretical physics areas of mechanics, electricity and geometric optics. Applications will focus on biophysical and physiological systems.

Around the world there are many people doing science outreach activities but, in the end, measure the impact and the learning outcome results complicated. The present course includes a directory of suggestions about how to measure the impact of the outreach events for the targeted audience.  Based on daily life experiments, the learners will gain the sufficient skills and different hints in solving physics problems related to waves and optics.

Electromagnetism is the module taught for level II students in MPE, PCE and PGE Combinations in Mathematics, Science and Physical Education Department at UR-College of Education, School of Education. This module has 10 credits unit and is taught in semester one of every academic year.This course introduces the basic concepts and principles of electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell Equations, propagation of electromagnetic waves, and their applications. The main aim of the module is to allow the students to explain electromagnetic phenomena, solve problems and perform experiments related to electromagnetism.

This module deals with basic concepts in modern physics. The module introduces the elementary concepts of quantum mechanics, nuclear physics, crystal structure, basic electronics and teaching strategies for modern physics.

Introduction: thermodynamic and molecular-kinetic methods for studying thermal properties of matter; definitions and units of thermodynamics (substances, systems–fixed mass and fixed space, pressure, state of a system, process).
•Temperature: the zero law of thermodynamics; the constant-volume gas thermometer, the temperature scales, and thermometers.
•Thermal expansion of solids and liquids
•Heat: the mechanical equivalent of heat; specific heat; calorimetry; heat transfer modes.
•Macroscopic and microscopic descriptions of an ideal gas: mass and size of molecules; bases of molecular-kinetic theory; equation of state of an ideal gas; constant-volume, constant-temperature and constant-pressure processes, a molecular model for the pressure of an ideal gas; mean energy of molecules; the number of degrees of freedom; molecular interpretation of temperature; the mean velocity of the molecules; the root-mean-square (rms) speed; the most probable velocity; the Maxwell distribution.

This module is dedicated to analytical mechanics and special relativity. In this module, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism will be discussed. This module deals with the motion in inertial frames of reference and special relativity. In this module, a comparison between classical and relativistic principles of relativity will also be done.

This module deals with concepts of modern physics and optics. The module discusses the failure of classical physics, wave-particle duality, and atomic models. It also discusses the concepts and principles of modern optics including interference, diffraction, and polarization of light and possible applications.

The main goal of the module is to introduce students to “Analytical Mechanics and Special Relativity” and its applications, and for them to learn and understand the fundamentals of this important module.

We recommend you to read all the materials provided for this module.

This module deals with basic concepts and principles of electrodynamics.  This module introduces propagation of electromagnetic waves in conducting, isotropic and anisotropic dielectric media as well as in bounded media and also deals with potential formulation of electrodynamics.

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This module asserts that the best way to achieve solution of real problem starts with identifying spatially critical source of it. The module recognizes the relevant attitude, knowledge and skills that all students need to outperform in real problem solving in geospatial atmosphere. It is designed to establish the strong basis for innovative problem identification and solving with introduction to important remote sensing and GIS technology. As the program requires students to spend much of their time thinking spatially about problems stressing the world, there is guarantee that they will be capable to apply such technology outside of classroom in environmental related problem solving. Consequently, they built a building block of knowledge and skills necessary to meet requirements of challenging professional life.

The module intends to strengthen students in physical geospatial problem solving by providing them with relevant remote sensing and Geographical information system (GIS) knowledge and skills so that they can highly and well perform in community.

Consequently,  students will learn both hardware and software requirements for remotely sensed data management/analysis, modelling, visualization and communication. The topics that will be covered among others are Remotely sensed data for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis and applications, Basic GIS operations and commercial GIS software packages.

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