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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Principles of Physics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 717-2500/01
Abbreviation ZF
Course title Principles of Physics
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Libor Hlaváč, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. LEGAL UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
2. MECHANICAL MOVEMENT
Kinematics of rectilinear motion of a particle,
uniform circular motion.
Strength as a physical quantity, physical laws,
Examples of force action.
Mechanical work, power, energy.
Torque, moment of inertia.
3. TEMPERATURE AND HEAT
Basic concepts - temperature, heat as a form of energy.
Equation of state of ideal gas, the gas going.
4. ELECTRICITY
Electric charge and its properties, the construction of the atom.
Electric field characteristics of homogeneous Elst. field in vacuum
(intensity, field lines, potential).
El. current in metals. DC circuits.

Literature

Halliday, D., Resnick, R., Walder, J.: Fundamentals of Physics, Fifth Editon
Extended, 1997, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.

Advised literature

Halliday, D., Resnick, R., Walder, J.: Fundamentals of Physics, Fifth Editon Extended, 1997, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.