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ML0025 Physics for Technical Preparatory Year II 18.0 credits

The course should promote a scientific view and give an understanding of basic physics concepts and relationships and give a good basis for further studies within physics and technical subjects that are included in the 3- and 5-year engineering programs.

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Application

For course offering

Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students

Application code

61423

Headings with content from the Course syllabus ML0025 (Spring 2021–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course disposition

  • Lectures
  • Laboratory Work

Course contents

Module A: TENA

Projectile motion, circular motion, electric fields, potential, the capacitor, magnetic fields, induction, alternating current.

Module B: TENB

Mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves, reflection, refraction and interference, oscillatory motion, photoelectric effect, atoms and quantum mechanics, the atomic nucleus and radioactivity, relativistic effects.

Laboratory sessions: LAB1

Includes modules A and B

Intended learning outcomes

Overall goal

The course should promote a scientific view and give an understanding of basic physics concepts and relationships and give a good basis for further studies within physics and technical subjects that are included in the 3- and 5-year engineering programs.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

Conduct, describe, analyze and report experiments to investigate the physics phenomena dealt with in the course.

Apply basic physic models and concepts, to identify, analyze and solve physics problems, within the context of the course content, and present the solutions in a structured way.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

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Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

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Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • LAB1 - Laboratory Work, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
  • TENA - Written examination, 8.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • TENB - Written examination, 8.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Other requirements for final grade

Final grades are given if all examination parts are approved. The final grade is based on the points in the examination.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

Pre-university level

Add-on studies

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