795-103 Engineering Physics

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Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to develop a student's ability to:

• explain the physical principles of processes and equipment operations in a dairy food factory;
• apply the conventions for using symbols, equations, formulae and graphical representations;
• apply a knowledge of physical properties and their measurement;
• explain the relationship between heat and temperature and apply this understanding to problems of heat transfer, latent heat and phase change;
• define the pressure, flow and velocity characteristics of liquids and make related calculations;
• explain the physical properties of thermal expansion, stress/strain relationships, and deformation behaviour of solids;
• apply fundamental concepts of electricity.

The content includes: Physical properties and their measurement. Heat, temperature energy. Properties and behaviour of fluids. Physical properties of solids. Fundamentals of electricity. Fundamentals of light and radiation.

Assessment

Five x 500 word assignments (4% each); five practical reports (4% each); 2 x two-hour examinations (30% each).