Course details
Seminar of Physics
IFS Acad. year 2024/2025 Winter semester 2 credits
The course covers a few basic goals.
The first goal is the revision of the physics high school knowledges with a focus on the basic terms and methods used in physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism.
The second goal of the course is the growth of engineering thinking, increasing the ability to analyze and solve simple and complex physical and technical issues.
The third goal of the course is to understand the basic physics laws in their contexts. Why things work the way they do. The goal is not only to describe physical reality, but also to understand physical principles.
The course is suitable for all students, but especially for those who came from high schools, where physics was taught only to limited extend.
Guarantor
Course coordinator
Language of instruction
Completion
Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Department
Instructor
Learning objectives
The repetition and extending of the fundamental physical phenomena focusing on mechanics, electricity and magnetism. This course helps students who had no or limited physics in previous secondary school education.
- Completion of high school knowledges,
- improving analytical thinking,
- gaining the ability to analyze simple and complex physical and technical issues,
- understanding of physical laws and processes,
- understanding why things in nature work the way they do.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Secondary school mathematics and physics.
Study literature
- Halliday, David - Resnick, Robert - Walker, Jearl: Fyzika. VUTIUM - 2013. ISBN: 978-80-214-4123-1.
- Středoškolské učebnice fyziky.
Syllabus of numerical exercises
General content of the course:
- Basic terms
- Vectors and their use
- Kinematics, rectilinear motions, free fall
- Movement in a circle
- Curvilinear movements
- Dynamics, Newton's laws
- Mechanical work, potential energy, kinetic energy
- Electric field, Coulomb's law,
- Gauss's theorem of electrostatics
- Electric potential, electric current
- Electricity, capacitance, capacitors, resistors
- Magnetic field
- Final summary
Progress assessment
The credit will be awarded if the student has no more than two non-attendance exercises (and unjustified).
Attendance is mandatory. A signature on the attendance list is required.
Course inclusion in study plans
- Programme BIT, 1st year of study, Elective
- Programme BIT (in English), 1st year of study, Elective