COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ELECTRICITY 1

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FZK 2005 ELECTRICITY 1 COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GAMZE SEZGIN SELÇUK

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective

This course aims to provide scientific information for students about fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to define the fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current.
2   Being able to explain relationships between the fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current.
3   Being able to do applications related with the fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current.
4   Being able to apply the fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current on other topics of physics.
5   Being able to explain the events which are faced in daily life by using the fundamental concepts, laws and techniques on the topics of the electrostatics and electric current on other topics of physics.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Electric Field, Properties of Electric Charges, Coulomb' s Law
2 Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution, Electric Field Lines, Motion of Charged Particles in a Uniform Electric Field
3 Gauss' s Law, Electric Flux, Gauss s Law for Symmetric Charge Distributions, Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium
4 Electric potential and potential difference, Electric potential difference in a uniform electric field, electric potential energy due to point charges
5 Obtaining the value of the electric field from the electric potential, electric potential of a charged conductor
6 Capacitors, capacitance and dielectrics, Obtaining the value of the capacitance, combinations of capacitors
7 Energy stored in a charged capasitor,capacitors with dielectrics
8 An Overview, Course Evaluation, Mid-term exam
9 Current and resistance, electric current, Ohm' s Law
10 A model for electrical conductivty, resistance and temperature
11 Direct current circuits, electromotive force
12 Series and parallel connected resistors
13 Kirchhoff' s Rules
14 RC Circuits
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Raymond A. Serway, Robert J. Beichner, John W. Jewett, Fen ve Mühendislik için Fizik II, Palme Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2007.
2. Davit Halliday-Robert Resnick, Fiziğin Temelleri-II, Arkadaş Yayınevi, Ankara, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question-answer, problem solving, discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Written exam

Assessment Criteria

Open-ended and closed-ended questions, problem solving applications

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gamze.sezgin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 7 1 7
Preparation for final exam 6 1 6
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 54

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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