Physics S2 (Joffre)

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

Geometric Optics

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

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Lenses - Spherical Diopter, Spherical Mirror - Spherical, Thin Lenses
- Conjugation Relations

# Optical Instruments
- The Eye and Corrective Eyeglasses
- Astronomical Telescope or Galilean Telescope
- Microscope

Stitch Mechanics, Vibrations

# Point Kinematics
- Coordinate Systems
- Position, Velocity, Acceleration
- Classical Motion (Constant Acceleration, Circular Motion)
- 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 Flux 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, the law of conservation. Mesh and node theorems

# Simple dipoles and models.

# RC, RL, and RLC Circuits, Filtering.

Ongoing Assessment