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Terminated in academic year 2018/2019

Principles of Physics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 717-2400/01
Abbreviation ZF
Course title Principles of Physics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Ondřej Životský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Basic units and quantities of the International System of Units (SI), vectors and their usage in physics.

Kinematics of point-like objects, position vector, distance, velocity, acceleration, angular velocity and acceleration. Movements in Earth's gravitational field and along the circle.

Dynamics of point-like objects, linear momentum, Newton's motion laws. Illustration at examples of body at inclined plane with and without the friction. Inertial and drag forces.

Energy, work, conservation of mechanical energy and linear momentum.

Mathematics of infinitely low intervals, application of derivatives and integrals in physics.

Literature

Halliday D., Resnick R., Walker J.: Fundamentals of Physics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1997;
Trojková J., Preliminary Course in Physics (CV500 701H/1104);

Advised literature

Feynman R.P., Leighton R.B., Sands M.: The Feynman lectures on physics, Vol. 1., Addison-Wesley 1966;