About This Guide
The Purpose of this Guide
Dear learners, the purpose of this guide is
- to guide you in learning, reviewing, and testing your knowledge of key concepts introduced each week;
- to develop mastery in solving physics problems;
- to support you in exploring the application of physics in health related areas and our life;
- to inspire you to search out further information on issues and topics for each week;
- to help develop study skills and skills for Digital Age.
Course Textbook
This course is designed to adopt and build on an Open Educational Resource, free textbook, created by OpenStax.
College Physics. (2022). openstax. https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics
College Physics meets standard scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory algebra-based physics course. The text is grounded in real-world examples to help students grasp fundamental physics concepts. It requires knowledge of algebra and some trigonometry, but not calculus. College Physics includes learning objectives, concept questions, links to labs and simulations, and ample practice opportunities for traditional physics application problems.
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course the students will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:
- Apply the concepts of kinematics and dynamics such as Newton’s laws, mechanical energy, work and power, and the law of conservation of energy.
- Apply the foundational concepts of thermodynamics, such as the characteristics of states of matter, gas laws, and fluid mechanics.
- Analyze physical phenomena related to mechanics and thermodynamics using critical thinking and conceptual problem-solving skills.
- Solve numeric physics problems using applicable mathematical concepts.
- Relate physics concepts to everyday phenomena, with the focus on the human body and health sciences.
About this Guide
This guide was designed to support learning the course material and connect different physics ideas to real world. Use this study guide to review and test your knowledge of key concepts introduced each week and to search out further information on issues and topics raised each week. This study guide also contains additional resources and activities to support the development of various studying skills and employability skills.
- Interactive PhET physics simulations allow to explore physics concepts in action and engage in virtual hands-on activities.
- Interactive knowledge-check activities are designed to help reinforce the understanding of the concepts and to review the course concepts.
- Concept maps demonstrate the connections among the concepts.
- Lists with formulas for every topic and step-by-step solutions for selected problems are in MS Word file format. This way they can be easily downloaded and modified to support personalized learning.
Objectives for weekly Material and Activities
- To provide a concept map to connect main ideas for a topic;
- To provide textbook resources to work on during the week;
- To provide textbook problems to solve;
- To provide problem-solving strategies relevant to week’s material.
- To guide students in solving word problems.
Objectives for the Supplementary Resources and Activities
- To illustrate the application of physics to real life and health sciences;
- To support the development of 21st century skills that support learning;
- To provide additional learning resources.
Organization of the Guide
This study guide contains not only weekly learning activities and resources support learning physics and its applications to health sciences but also to develop study skills.
The guide also contains knowledge check activities and descriptions of case studies for this course.
Additionally, it contains material that was co-created with the learners or suggested by learners.
Glossary of physics terms and necessary mathematics skills to succeed in the course are located at the end of the guide.
