COURSE SYLLABUS

Course Title: THERMODYNAMICS AND MODERN PHYSICS

Credits Earned: 0.6
No. of Hours/Week: 2
Course Requirements:

 Regular and punctual attendance

 Exemplary performance in portfolio assessment which include paper-and-pencil works, mid-quarter and final quarter
assessments/examinations, quizzes, board works and performance tasks
 Active participation in class
 Project-making
 Passing of assignment
 Pass on time a good quality project
Course Description:
This course aims to give the students an advanced background of the important topics in the field of Physics particularly in
Thermodynamics and Modern Physics.
Course Outline:

Period Coverage Learning Competencies

FIRST QUARTER TEMPERATURE AND HEAT The learner…
 Temperature and Zeroth Law of  Define temperature.
TEMPERATURE, HEAT, Thermodynamics  State the zeroth law of
AND FIRST LAW OF  Temperature Scales thermodynamics.
THERMODYNAMICS  Thermal Expansion  Compare the different temperature
 Heat Quantity scales.
 Calorimetry and Phase Changes  Describe how temperature change
 Heat Transfer Mechanism

FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 Thermodynamic Systems
 Internal Energy and First Law of
Thermodynamics
 Different Thermodynamic Processes
 Some Applications of the First Law of
Thermodynamics
SECOND QUARTER SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
 Directions of Thermodynamic Processes
SECOND LAW OF  Heat Engines and the Second Law of
THERMODYNAMICS Thermodynamics
 Heat Pumps and Refrigerators
 Carnot Cycle
 Entropy
affects an object’s dimension.
 Differentiate heat and temperature.
 Discuss and solve word problems
involving the quantity of heat,
calorimetry and phase changes.
 Explain the concepts behind
mechanisms of heat transfer.
 Explain the importance of
thermodynamic systems.
 State the first law of thermodynamics.
 Enumerate and analyze thermodynamic
processes.
 Differentiate reversible and irreversible
processes.
 State the second law of
thermodynamics.
 Define heat engine.
 Enumerate types of engines.
 Calculate the efficiency of a heat
engine.
 Analyze the performance of
refrigerator.
 Discuss Carnot cycle.
 Explain how entropy is used in
analyzing thermodynamic processes.
 Elaborate the relationship between
entropy and microscopic states.
THIRD QUARTER SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
RELATIVITY AND  Galilean-Newtonian Relativity
QUANTUM MECHANICS  Postulates of Special Theory of
Relativity
 Relativity of Simultaneity
 Time Dilation and Length Contraction
 Relativistic Momentum
 Mass – Energy Equivalence
GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
 Principle of Equivalence
 Bending of Light by Gravity
 Gravitational Red Shift
 Gravitational Waves
QUANTUM MECHANICS
 Blackbody Radiation and Planck’s
Hypothesis
 Photoelectric Effect
 Compton Effect
 Wave-Particle Duality
 De Broglie Wavelength
 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
 Compare Galilean-Newtonian relativity
from Einstein’s relativity theory.
 Describe the postulates of special
theory of relativity.
 Solve for relativistic values of time,
length, momentum, mass, and energy.
 Explain mass-energy equivalence.
 Explain the principle of equivalence.
 Discuss how gravity bends light
according to the general theory of
relativity.
 Describe the geometry of space-time
according to the general theory of
relativity.
 Discuss how gravitation waves are
formed.
 Describe blackbody radiation.
 Explain Planck’s hypothesis.
 Discuss wave-particle duality.
 Solve problems about photoelectric
and Compton effect.
 Solve problems about De Broglie
wavelength Heisenberg uncertainty
 principle.

FOURTH QUARTER NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIOACTIVITY  Differentiate between nuclear fission
 Nuclear Fission and nuclear fusion.
NUCLEAR PHYSICS  Nuclear Fusion  Identify radiation measurements.
 Biological Effects of Radiation  Discuss radiation hazards.
 Enumerate industrial and medical
applications of radiation.