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Physical Science
PY110

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

5.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

Student must also enroll in PY110L Lab.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

An introductory course in physics and chemistry, with applications to geology, climatology, oceanography, and astronomy. Lecture and lab.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Explain concepts and solve problems involving fundamentals and astronomy.
    1. Write numbers in ordinary decimal notation into scientific notation, and vice-versa.
    2. Multiply and divide a pair of numbers in scientific notation, expressing the answer in scientific notation.
    3. Perform measurements of length, volume, mass, density, and force in metric units.
    4. Calculate conversions between units, including units with metric prefixes.
    5. Use the rules of significant figures to properly express the level of precision of measured numbers, and of numbers calculated from measured numbers.
    6. Use the relationship between density, mass, and volume in calculations.
    7. Construct graphs manually on graph paper, and on the computer using graphing software.
    8. Given a linear graph, measure the y-intercept and slope, and express the mathematical relationship between the two variables.
    9. Recognize linear, squared, and reciprocal proportionalities from graphs, and from theoretical dependences between variables.
    10. Employ the relationships for the circumference and area of a circle in calculations.
    11. Measure angles using protractors, and calculate the arc lengths of fractions of a circle.
    12. Read the latitude and longitude of locations on a globe.
    13. Perform calculations relevant to Eratosthenes’ measurement of the circumference of the Earth.
    14. Perform a pinhole experiment that simulates the measurement of the angular width of the Sun.
    15. Apply the definitions of the trigonometric functions tangent, sine, and cosine in calculations involving right triangles.
    16. Perform an experiment that simulates the measurement of the distance to the Moon using parallax.
    17. Demonstrate an understanding of the rotational and orbital motions of the Earth, and how these motions relate to the apparent motions of the heavens, and the definitions of the sidereal year, the solar day, and the sidereal day.
    18. Demonstrate an understanding of deduction, induction, and the scientific method.
  2. Explain concepts and solve problems involving forces and static equilibrium.
    1. Draw and interpret force diagrams involving gravitational, normal, and frictional forces.
    2. Identify whether a pair of forces are equal and opposite because they are an action and reaction force pair, or because they are a balanced force pair.
    3. Calculate weight from mass, and vice-versa.
    4. Calculate the net force from the multiple forces acting on an object in one-dimensional situations.
    5. Apply the First Condition of Static Equilibrium to determine unknown forces.
    6. Apply the First Condition of Static Equilibrium to string and pulley systems.
    7. Perform conversions between different units of pressure.
    8. Calculate the force that the air exerts on a wall, given the wall’s area.
    9. Calculate the pressure as a function of depth into a liquid.
    10. Read a barometer to determine the air pressure.
    11. Calculate the buoyant force that a fluid exerts on an object that is submerged in it.
    12. Predict whether an object will float or sink in a fluid by comparing their densities.
    13. Relate the volume of the submerged part of a floating object to the volume of the displaced fluid.
    14. Apply Archimedes' Principle to relate the mass of a floating object to the mass of the displaced fluid.
    15. Apply the relationship between torque, force and radius in calculations.
    16. Apply the Second Condition of Static Equilibrium to determine unknown torques.
  3. Describe concepts and solve problems involving motion.
    1. Apply the kinematics definitions to calculate change in position, distance, speed, and velocity.
    2. Apply the relationship between speed, distance, and time in calculations.
    3. Express the position as a function of time for a given situation involving motion with a constant velocity, and use this relationship in calculations.
    4. Interpret position versus time graphs to determine how the velocity is changing with time.
    5. Calculate acceleration from the change in velocity and time.
    6. Perform calculations using the relationships between velocity, distance, and time for motion that starts from rest and speeds up with a constant rate of acceleration.
    7. Graph position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time, and from these graphs identify the type of motion.
    8. Utilize Newton's First Law of Motion to predict the motion of an object acted on by a net force of zero.
    9. Identify the type of motion that occurs in free fall, and calculate predictions for the motion of a freely falling object.
    10. Utilize Newton's Second Law of Motion in calculations of force, mass, and acceleration.
  4. Discuss concepts and solve problems involving energy and heat.
    1. Calculate work from force and distance.
    2. Calculate kinetic energy from speed, and vice-versa.
    3. Use the Work-Energy Theorem in calculations to relate the work done on a mass to its change in kinetic energy.
    4. Calculate the gravitational potential energy of a mass from its elevation, and vice-versa.
    5. Apply the Conservation of Mechanical Energy to frictionless motion situations in which gravity and/or an elastic force are doing work.
    6. Calculate the amount of thermal energy created in situations involving motion with friction.
    7. Calculate the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit from the Celsius temperature, and vice-versa.
    8. Use the specific heat relationship to calculate the thermal energy change in a sample from its temperature change, and vice-versa.
    9. Use the latent heat relationship to calculate the thermal energy that must be added or removed from a water sample for it to undergo the melting, freezing, boiling, and condensing phase transitions.
    10. Calculate the volume expansion of liquid and solid samples, and the linear expansion of solid samples, given the temperature change.
    11. Explain the basic concepts of the microscopic energies involved in thermal processes.
    12. Explain what happens as the absolute zero temperature is approached, and calculate conversions between the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales.
    13. Utilize the Ideal Gas Law to calculate the relationship between the pressure of a gas, and its volume, number of particles, and temperature.
  5. Explain concepts and solve problems involving chemistry and electricity.
    1. Apply "opposites attract and likes repel" to determine whether electric forces between protons, electrons, and neutrons are attractive, repulsive, or nonexistent.
    2. Explain the structure of the atom.
    3. Use the Periodic Table to specify how many protons each element has.
    4. Interpret ion notation to specify how many electrons a given ion has.
    5. Identify isotopes by writing both isotope notations.
    6. Use isotope notations to specify how many protons and neutrons isotopes have.
    7. Convert between atomic mass units and grams.
    8. Calculate the atomic mass of elements, and look up atomic masses in the Periodic Table.
    9. Explain the two definitions of atomic mass, Avogadro's number, and moles.
    10. Convert between number of particles and number of moles.
    11. Interpret compound formulas.
    12. Calculate the mass of an ionic compound sample from the number of moles of ions that it contains, and vice-versa.
    13. Interpret molecular formulas.
    14. Calculate the mass of a molecular sample from the number of moles of molecules that it contains, and vice-versa.
    15. Perform calculations of composition, concentration, and solubility.
    16. Explain the difference between physical and chemical changes.
    17. List some observable signs of a chemical change.
    18. Explain under what conditions mass is conserved when a sample undergoes a change.
    19. Apply this understanding to measure the density of the gas produced by the Alka-Seltzer reaction.
    20. Balance chemical equations.
    21. Write the electron configuration for the ground state of elements.
    22. Apply the Octet rule to predict what ions are formed by representative elements.
    23. Predict the compound formulas of ionic compounds.
    24. Apply the Octet rule to predict how many covalent bonds representative nonmetal elements form.
    25. Predict the structure of molecules.
    26. Write the combustion reactions for hydrocarbon chain molecules.
    27. Explain how photosynthesis is the reverse reaction of the burning of wood.
    28. Identify the chemical structure of common polymers.
    29. Explain the difference between open and closed circuits, and between electrical conductors and nonconductors.
    30. Build circuits involving wires, batteries, light bulbs, switches, DC power supplies, and resistors.
    31. Utilize the digital multimeter to measure voltage, current, and resistance in these circuits.
    32. Utilize the relationship between current, charge and time in calculations.
    33. Predict the currents and voltages in circuits involving batteries in series, and light bulbs in series and in parallel.
    34. Utilize Ohm's Law to calculate the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
    35. Predict the currents, voltages, and resistances of circuits containing resistors connected in series and connected in parallel.

HutchCC course outcomes are equivalent to the Kansas core outcomes.

KRSN:

PSI1010

The learning outcomes and competencies detailed in this course outline or syllabus meet or exceed the learning outcomes and competencies specified by the Kansas Core Outcomes Groups project for this course as approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1.Class activities 2.Quizzes 3.Exams 4.Final exam

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 06/06/2019