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Physics I - Mechanics and Molecular Physics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 480-8110/01
Abbreviation FYI
Course title Physics I - Mechanics and Molecular Physics
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator Ing. Michal Gryga, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Single particle motion: kinematic description, translation and rotation.
2. Dynamics and forces: Newton's laws, work and energy in mechanics.
3. Mechanics of rigid bodies: mass center, transltion, rotation and compound motions.
4. Impulse, momentum and collisions, Steiner's theorem.
5. Mechanical oscillations: free oscillations, damped and forced oscillations, superposition of oscillations.
6. Traveling and standing mechanical waves, wave equation, mechanical waves in three dimensions, interference phenomena.
7. Introduction to accoustic phenomena.
8. Introduction to mechanics ideal fluid: Pascal's law, hydrostatic pressure, Bernouli's equation and continuity equation
9. Fundamentals of molecular phenomena: introduction to physics of thermal phenomena
10. Basics of heat transfer
11. Kinetic theory of gases: equation of state for ideal gas, simple model of real gas.
12. Reversible phenomena in ideal gases, the entropy concept.
13. Lagrange and Hamilton equations.

E-learning

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

Literature

HALLIDAY, D., RESNICK, R., WALKER, J.: Fundamentals of Physics, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 9th ed., 2010, ISBN-13 978-0470547922 
TIPLER, P., A., MOSCA, G., P.: Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, W. H. Freeman, 6th ed., 2007, ISBN-13 978-1429202657 

Advised literature

PAIN, H., J.: The physics of vibrations and waves, 6th ed., Wiley-Blackwell, 2005, ISBN-13 978-0470012963 
SANDS, M., FEYNMAN, R., LEIGHTON, R.: The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. 1, Basic Books, 2011, ISBN-13 978-0465024933