PHY10101 · UNIST · Fall 2026

General Physics I

Motion, matter, and heat through eight ideas.

Motion is geometry in time. Position, velocity, acceleration.
Force changes motion. Newton’s laws and their consequences.
Energy keeps the account. Work, kinetic and potential energy, conservation.
Momentum tracks interaction. Impulse, collisions, conservation.
Rotation repeats mechanics around an axis. Torque and angular momentum.
Coupled oscillations become waves. Propagation, superposition, resonance.
Matter deforms and flows. Elasticity, pressure, fluids.
Microscopic motion has macroscopic laws. Temperature, gases, entropy, irreversibility.

The problem bank defines the level of the course.

There is no homework and no quiz series. The midterm and final each contain five short problems. Problems are taken from the practice bank or are close variants: the idea and method are familiar; numbers, geometry, or wording may change.

Lectures: Monday & Wednesday · 75 minutes
Textbook: Halliday & Resnick, Principles of Physics, 12th ed., Wiley, 2022
Midterm: Friday, 16 October 2026 · 14:30–16:30
Final: Friday, 11 December 2026 · 14:30–16:30