FPSET Supporting Courses

Prepares students for further studies in chemistry. Basic laboratory techniques, methods of separation, types of chemical reactions, solution preparation and standardization, titrations, molecular modeling, qualitative analysis, gases, virtual labs on computer.

Kinetics and equilibrium, solution chemistry, energy changes in chemical reactions, descriptive inorganic chemistry. Prepares students for further studies in chemistry.

Study of loads, forces and their effects on rigid bodies and structures at rest. Computation of equilibrium reactions, internal forces, shear, moments, couples, friction, stress, strain, and deformation. Finding centroids and moments of inertia.

A study of the design of beams and columns using steel and wood. Principles of structural design related to the design of temporary structures used in the construction process.

Functions, limits and continuity, derivatives and applications, integration, and introduction to and use of the computer package Mathematica or other appropriate technology.

Fundamental integration techniques, numerical integration, applications of integration, improper integrals, differential equations, infinite series, polar and parametric equations, and use of Mathematica or other appropriate technology.

Composition and resolution of forces, laws of equilibrium, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy, momentum, simple harmonic motion, hydrodynamics, heat phenomena.

Electrostatics, electric potential, dielectrics, A.C. and D.C. circuits, magnetic fields, Faraday’s Law, sound, wave motion, geometrical and physical optics.

Study of temperature, thermodynamic systems, ideal gases, first and second law of thermodynamics, Carnot cycle, Kelvin temperature scale, entropy.

Shape and size description of objects using conventional projection techniques—multiview, axonometric, oblique, and perspective. Emphasis is placed on sketching with paper and pencil and with computers.