Physics S1 (Joffre)

The program below covers the two physics courses in the first year of CPES at Lycée Joffre.

Geometric optics

# Laws of geometric optics
- Light: source models and spectra.
- Descartes' laws, plane diopter

# Lenses
- Spherical diopter, spherical mirror - Spherical lenses, thin
- Conjugation relations

# Optical instruments
- Eye and corrective eyewear
- Astronomical telescope or Galileo telescope
- Microscope

Point mechanics, vibrations

# Point kinematics
- Coordinate systems
- Position, velocity, acceleration
- Classical motions (constant acceleration, circular)
- Chronophotography

# Laws of dynamics

# Energy approach

# Oscillators

Electrostatics, Magnetostatics

# Electric charge, electric field

# Electrostatic potential, potential energy

# Gauss's theorem: statement and examples

# Current element, magnetostatic field

# Circulation and flow of the magnetic field

# Electrostatic dipoles

# Motion of a charged particle in an electrostatic or magnetostatic field

Electrokinetics

# Current and voltage, charge and current densities, conservation law. Mesh and node laws

# Simple dipoles and models.

# RC, RL, RLC circuits, filtering.

Continuous assessment