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.
There is no homework and no quiz series. Each Wednesday, one problem from the bank is designated for independent practice. Students should attempt it before the worked solution is posted on Blackboard on Thursday. 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
- Teaching assistant
- Artur Ugay · artur11@unist.ac.kr
- TA office hour
- Weekly · time announced on Blackboard
- Blackboard
- Lecture files · worked solutions · notices
- Student questions
- Please contact the teaching assistant first.
- Textbook
- Halliday & Resnick, Principles of Physics, 12th ed., Wiley, 2022
- Midterm
- Friday, 16 October 2026 · 15:00–17:00 · 104-E205
- Final
- Thursday, 10 December 2026 · 14:30–16:30 · 104-E205