Sho Iwamoto / 岩本 祥

@ 國立中山大學物理系 NSYSU–Physics

General Physics 1

This is the page for EE-EMI (電機全英) lecture from September 2025.

Remarks

About the textbook for 2025 Course

We have been used Physics for Scientists and Engineers (with Modern Physics) in the previous years. Its 11th edition has recently been published in the US. This new edition reflects the 2019 revision of the SI, while the 10th edition do not. However, the 11th edition is not yet available in Taiwan. Therefore, if it becomes available before the first lecture , we will use the new edition for the 2025 Lecture. Sho will tell you about the textbook at the first lecture, and you will buy one after that .

To New Students

  • Review and preview derivatives and vectors.
    • Do Derivative Boot Camp during the summer vacation. We have a mini test on the second week.
    • Try Vector Boot Camp. The topics will be discussed in the lectures, but it is nice if you can start earlier than others.
    • I will accept any questions (and welcome your visit anytime, even before the semester).
    With these reviews, your university life will be easier, more enjoyable, and more satisfactory. Otherwise, you will forget all high-school math and physics during the summer vacation!! And then, you will have to work harder than others after the entrance!

To Students who want to take my General Physics 2

  • Students who want to take General Physics 2 by Sho Iwamoto (in 2025‒2 semester) should take this course.

Outline

An introductory course to University Physics. Students are expected to comprehend fundamental concepts in physics but also learn how to study physical science in university individually based on English textbooks.

You think about yourself and how you can learn physics efficiently so that you make your NSYSU life more enjoyable and satisfactory. Throughout this semester, you try to build your way of learning, where you need to learn proactively by utilizing lectures and books given in English.

This lecture’s second goal is to learn fundamental concepts in physics, such as energy and force. Toward the goal, you begin with basic calculus and vector arithmetic: you learn differentials, essential integrals, and calculations with vectors. Using those tools, you analyze three-dimensional motions of particles and oscillatory motions and waves.

The tools and concepts you learn are widely used in future lectures, such as General Physics 2, Circuit Theory, Electromagnetism, and Electronics.

Guidance document

Textbook

To be announced on September 12th. Serway & Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers (with Modern Physics), 10th or 11th edition. Cengage Learning.

  • You will use the book in in-class activities.
  • Sho strongly recommends you to bring the physical book (printed version) to the lecture.

Students’ Goals

  • I know how to study at the university. I have “my way of learning” customized for my personality and cognitive characteristics.
  • I know how to study efficiently, proactively, and individually based on English textbooks.
  • I can perfectly handle quantities with physical units without confusing vectors and scalars.
  • I am familiar with differentials, integrals, and vector arithmetic, and can use them to analyze three-dimensional motions.
  • I can explain “energy”, “work”, “potential”, “momentum”, and relations among them.
  • I can express waves by trigonometric functions and analyze them using calculus techniques.

Schedule (2025‒1)

150 min lecture for 16 weeks.

(to be announced)

Past Exam Problems

Other Information