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Physics for Engineers

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-8030/01
Abbreviation IF
Course title Physics for Engineers
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator Ing. Lucie Gembalová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS: mechanics of the particles – curvilinear motion kinematics and dynamics
2. CLASSICAL MECHANICS: equations of motion described by partial differential equations
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS:
mechanics of the rigid objects (location of center of gravity, moment of inertia)
4. CLASSICAL MECHANICS: Simple harmonic motion (mechanical oscillator, simple physical and mathematical pendulum, damped and forced oscillations, resonance)
5. CLASSICAL MECHANICS: Mechanical waves, Doppler effect
6. RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS: Einstein´s principle of Relativity, Lorentz transformation equations, Kinematic and dynamic fundamentals in relativity
7. THERMODYNAMICS:
Thermodynamics laws, Phase transitions, Thermal transmittance
8. QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Heat transfer, thermal radiation of substances, partical behavior of electromagnetic waves
9. QUANTUM MECHANICS: Photoelectric effect, X-ray radiation, Compton scattering
10. QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Wave properties of microparticles, Bohr´s postulates, Bohr atom model of hydrogen atom, quantum numbers, Models of Solids and Semiconductors
11. ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Composition and binding energy of atomic nuclei
12. ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Radioactive decay of nuclei Laws of conservation in nuclear reactions

E-learning

Materials are available at https://lms.vsb.cz/?lang=en

Literature

HALLIDAY, D., RESNICK, R. WALKER, J.: Fundamentals of physics, 9th ed., extended. - Hoboken: Wiley 2011, ISBN 978-0-470-46908-8 (váz.)

Advised literature

MUKHERJI, U.: Engineering physics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Alpha Science International, 2007, xviii, 414 s.: il. ISBN: 978-1-84265-285-5 (váz.)

JONES, E.R, CHILDERS, R.L.: Contemporary college physics, Addison-Wesley, c1990, xix, 930, [26] s. : il. ISBN: 0-201-11951-X  (váz.)

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/