Pathway Physics 1 7.5 credits

The course includes the following elements: <br> The course introduces the basic physics and the science of working with experiments, analysis and interpretation of measurements using models. It also includes societal relevance, scientific method, and sustainability. In addition, the course will provide familiarity with the use of mathematical concepts in physics and algebraic handling of formulas and expressions. The course content includes and corresponds to, but is not limited to, the Swedish upper secondary school course Fysik 1. The horizontal aim is to develop and strengthen student skills for participating in higher education, life-long learning and global citizenship through group work, social engagement, peer learning, reflective learning and autonomous learning whilst developing agency, ability to reconcile tensions and dilemmas, intercultural communication skills, metacognitive skills, information and digital literacy and critical thinking. <br> The course includes the following topics: - Units and unit conversions, vectors and scalars, the SI-system - Velocity and speed, acceleration, laws of motion with constant acceleration - Newton's laws, normal force, gravitational force, Hooke’s Law, friction, inclined plane - Work, potential energy, kinetic energy, power and efficiency, conservation of energy - Momentum, conservation of momentum, impulse, elastic and inelastic collisions - Density, pressure, pressure in liquids, Archimedes’ principle - Thermodynamics; pressure in gases, the ideal gas law, phase transitions and calorimetry - Electric charges and forces, electric fields, electric current, voltage and potentials, resistance and resistivity, electrical energy and power - DC circuits, series and parallel circuits involving resistors - Nuclides, nuclear reactions, activity and half-life, ionizing radiation - The special theory of relativity, light speed, time dilation and length contraction, relativistic energy