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Selected Chapters in Physics

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0921/01
Abbreviation VKF
Course title Selected Chapters in Physics
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Karla Barčová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Physical quantities important in terms of fire protection and industrial safety, their relationship and use in safety engineering.
Energy, its forms of transformation, the effects of physical impacts on material and humans.
Mechanics of solids, liquids and gases, thermodynamics and heat transfer in terms of safety engineering.
Physical properties of matter, states of matter and their transformations.
Electricity, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, heat and danger associated with them.
Optics and optical instruments.
Interaction of matter and radiation.

Literature

HALLIDAY, D., RESNICK, R., WALKER, J.: Fundamentals of Physics. Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 2005. EAN: 9780471735397.
FEYNMAN, R.P., LEIGHTON, R.B., SANDS, M.: The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition. Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 2nd edition, 2005, ISBN: 0805390456 

Advised literature

KNIGHT, R.D.: Physics for Scientists and Engineers: A Strategic Approach with Modern Physics. Addison-Wesley, 201. ISBN - 10: 0321740904.
SHANKAR R.: Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity and Thermodynamics. An open Yale Courses. Yale University Press, 2014. ISBN-10:0300192207 .