209-103 Engineering Physics

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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; and

• 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; and fundamentals of light and radiation.

Assessment

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