UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PHY

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
PHYSICS SYLLABUS

1. PHYSICAL QUANTITIES AND UNITS

All physical quantities understood as consisting of a numerical magnitude and unit.
International System of Units (SI).

Base unit: mass, length, time, current, temperature, amount of substance.
Other Unit expressible as products or quotients of base units.

Student should understand and use the conventions for indicating units and for
labelling graph axes and table columns as set out in the current ASE Report SI
Units, Signs, Symbols and Abbreviations.

Use of units or dimensions to check homogeneity of physical equations.
Use of dimensions to derive possible forms of physical equations is not required.
Scalars and vectors. Composition and perpendicular resolution of vectors.
(Coplanar examples are sufficient.)


2. RELATIVE MASSES OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES

(a) Relative atomic, isotopic, molecular and formula masses, based on the 12C
scale. (Ar and Mr). The term relative formula mass or Mr will be used for
ionic compounds.

(b) The mole, the Avogadro constant (see 4.1).

(c) The determination of relative masses

(i) by mass-spectrometry, treated as consisting of an ion generator, a
velocity selector, a magnetic field and a detector.
(ii) for gases and volatile liquids by a syringe or other s imple laboratory
method base don pV = nRT (see 9.3).
(iii) Details of the physics of mass spectrometry are not required but
interpretation of results (in relation to isotopic abundances and the
presence of molecular fragments) is included.

(d) The calculation of empirical and molecular formulae, using composition by
mass and combustion data.