Code:
UBPJO-057
Academic year:
Programme:
Module name:
2015/2016
Physics
Semester:
Spring, Fall
ECTS credits:
6
AGH UST International Courses
Course homepage:
Responsible teacher:
https://intcourses.agh.edu.pl
Lecture language:
English
dr hab. Matuszak Zenon (Zenon.Matuszak@fis.agh.edu.pl)
Academic teachers: dr hab. Matuszak Zenon (Zenon.Matuszak@fis.agh.edu.pl)
Description of learning outcomes for module
MLO code
Student after module completion has the
knowledge/ knows how to/is able to
Method of learning outcomes verification (form
of completion)
Social competence
M_K001
The student knows that we are surrounded by
things and phenomena that can be understood
in terms of science, much of them is within
students reach; that science is not frightening
and that most objects and phenomena can be
examined and understood.
Activity during classes, Examination,
Participation in a discussion, Execution of
laboratory classes, Involvement in teamwork,
Completion of laboratory classes
M_U001
The student has practical skills in performing
simple experiments using statistical data
analysis.
Activity during classes, Examination, Test,
Report, Execution of laboratory classes,
Completion of laboratory classes
M_U002
The student can how to set and how to solve
simple physical problems seeing the problems
solved.
Activity during classes, Examination, Test,
Participation in a discussion, Execution of
exercises, Execution of laboratory classes,
Completion of laboratory classes
The student knows the basic theoretical and
experimental methods used in both classical
and modern physics; knows the physical
principles of measurements of basic physical
quantities.
Activity during classes, Examination, Test
Skills
Knowledge
M_W001
1/7
Module card - Physics
M_W002
The student understands physical phenomena
encounterd in everyday life, sees similarities
between objects, shared mechanisms and
recurring themes that are reused by nature or
by people.
Activity during classes, Examination
M_W003
The student acquires basic knowledge about
main topics of classical and modern physics,
understands the key concepts of physics and
the relationships between them.
Activity during classes, Examination, Test
FLO matrix in relation to forms of classes
Seminar
classes
Practical
classes
Fieldwork
classes
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M_U001
The student has practical
skills in performing simple
experiments using statistical
data analysis.
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M_U002
The student can how to set
and how to solve simple
physical problems seeing the
problems solved.
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The student knows the basic
theoretical and experimental
methods used in both
classical and modern physics;
knows the physical principles
of measurements of basic
physical quantities.
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E-learning
Conversation
seminar
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Others
Project
classes
The student knows that we
are surrounded by things and
phenomena that can be
understood in terms of
science, much of them is
within students reach; that
science is not frightening and
that most objects and
phenomena can be examined
and understood.
Workshops
Laboratory
classes
Form of classes
Auditorium
classes
Student after module
completion has the
knowledge/ knows how to/is
able to
Lectures
MLO code
Social competence
M_K001
Skills
Knowledge
M_W001
2/7
Module card - Physics
M_W002
The student understands
physical phenomena
encounterd in everyday life,
sees similarities between
objects, shared mechanisms
and recurring themes that are
reused by nature or by
people.
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M_W003
The student acquires basic
knowledge about main topics
of classical and modern
physics, understands the key
concepts of physics and the
relationships between them.
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Module content
Lectures
Physics - lectures
1. <strong>Introduction:</strong> the nature of physics, scientific methods-models,
scientific measurements, standards and units, scalars and vectors.
<strong>2.Mechanics:</strong>
<strong>Kinematics:</strong> kinematics of straight –line motion: displacement,
time, average and instantaneous velocity, average and instantaneous acceleration,
motion in two and three dimensions, uniform circular motion.
<strong>Dynamics:</strong> Newton’s Laws of Motion: Newton’s First Law: inertia,
inertial frames of reference; Newton’s Second Law Motion: force and acceleration,
superposition of forces, mass and weight; Newton’s Third Law: forces and interactions,
actions and reactions – defining of system, applying Newton’s Laws, dynamics of
circular motion, fundamental forces of nature.
<strong>3. Momentum and energy</strong>: impulse, collisions, center of mass,
external forces and the center of mass – motion, conservation of momentum, work,
power, mechanical energy: kinetic and potential, work-energy theorem, work and
energy with varying forces, energy conservation, gravitational potential energy,
elastic potential energy, conservative and nonconservative forces: friction, the Law of
Conservation of Energy, force and potential energy.
<strong>4.Rotation of rigid bodies</strong>: angular velocity and acceleration,
relating linear and angular kinematics, energy in rotational motion: rotational inertia
and moment of inertia, moment of Inertia calculations, center of mass and center of
gravity, parallel-axis theorem, torque and angular acceleration of the rigid body, work
and power in rotational motion, combined translation and rotation: rolling without
slipping and rolling friction, angular momentum of the rigid body, conservation of
angular momentum, gyroscopes and precession.
<strong>5.Gravitation:</strong> Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation, gravitational
potential energy,gravitational fields, projectile and satellite motion( escape speed),
weight and weightlessness, Kepler’s Laws and the motion of planets, black holes and
event horizon.
<strong>6. Vibrations:</strong> simple harmonic motion(SHM)-equation of SHM,
circular motion and SHM, displacement, amplitude, velocity, acceleration, period,
frequency, angular frequency, energy in SHM, applications of SHM- simple and
physical pendulum, damped oscillations, forced oscillations and resonance.
<strong>7. Mechanical waves:</strong> types of waves, mathematical description of
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waves-wave function, particle velocity and acceleration in sinusoidal wave, wave
speed and energy in wave motion, wave interference and the principle of
superposition, beats, Doppler effect, reflection and standing waves, normal modes,
sound and hearing –sound intensity, decibel scale, music.
<strong>8.Thermodynamics:</strong> temperature and heat, laws of
thermodynamics: the Zeroth Law (thermometers, Kelvin scale, thermal expansion,
calorimetry and phases changes, mechanisms of heat transfer),the First Law (the
thermodynamic system, work and heat, work done during volume changes,paths
between thermodynamic states, internal energy, kinds of thermodynamic processes,
cyclic processes, ideal gas, heat capacities of ideal gas),the Second Law (directions of
thermodynamic processes and disorder, heat engines and efficiency, the Second Law
statement, entropy, entropy and disorder, reversibility, microscopic interpretation of
entropy-microscopic states-calculation of entropy),the Third Law (absolute zero).
<strong>8.Electrostatics:</strong>electric charge, electric field vector, principle of
conservation of charge, electric charge and structure of matter (atom, the elements,
periodic table, isotopes, molecules, antimatter, dark matter), charging by induction,
Coulomb’s Law and superposition principle, electric field of point charge and dipole,
calculating of electric fields, electric flux and Gauss’s Law, applications of Gauss’s
Law, electric potential energy and electric potential, calculating electric potential,
electron volts, equipotential surfaces and field lines, potential gradient and electric
field, capacitance, capacitor, energy storage in capacitors and electric-field energy,
dielectrics, induced charge and polarization, capacitors in parallel and in series,
Gauss’s Law in dielectrics.
<strong>9.Electric current and electromotive force</strong>: current, direction of
current flow and current density, resistivity and resistance, electromotive force
(internal resistance, terminal voltage),voltage sources, direct <del>current circuits
and symbols for circuit diagrams, Ohm’s Law, resistors in series and in parallel,
Kirchoff’s Law’s and signs convention, energy and power in electric circuits, ammeters
and voltmeters, R-C circuits, conductors and semiconductors.
<strong>10. Magnetism and magnetic fields</strong>: permanent magnets,
magnetic forces on moving charges and current carrying conductor, motion of charged
particles in magnetic field-applications, magnetic field lines and magnetic flux,
Gauss’s Law for magnetism, force and torque on current loop – magnetic dipole, loops
and coils, Hall effect, sources of magnetic field (moving charge, magnetic field of a
current element), the Biot-Savart Law, force between parallel conductors-defining the
ampere, magnetic field on the axis of a coil, Amper’s Law, magnetic materials
(paramagnetism, diamagnetism, ferromagnetism).
<strong>11. Electromagnetic induction:</strong> Faraday’s Law, direction of induced
electromotive force(EMF), generators and alternating current, Lenz’s Law and
response to flux changes, motional EMF, induced electric fields, displacement current
and Maxwell equations for electromagnetism, Lorentz’s force, inductance, mutual
inductance, self-inductance and inductors, magnetic</del> field energy and energy
storage in inductors, R-L, L-C and RLC circuits, impedance and phase angle,
alternating current circuits, transformers.
<strong>12. Electromagnetic waves:</strong> generating electromagnetic radiation,
key properties of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum, speed of light,
plane electromagnetic wave, electromagnetic energy flow-intensity, standing waves.
<strong>13.Light- nature and propagation:</strong> wave front and rays, principle
of last time, law’s of reflection and refraction, total internal reflection, dispersion,
polarization, Huygen’s Principle, geometric optics – mirrors, lens images, eye and
defects of vision, microscopes and telescopes, wave optics –interference(Michelson
interferometer, coherence) and diffraction (single slit and two slits diffraction,
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diffraction grating, spectrographs, circular apertures, diffraction and image formation,
X-ray diffraction).
<strong>14. Basics of Special and General Theory of Relativity (STR and
GTR):</strong>
STR: Michelson-Morley experiment, postulates of STR, simultaneity, spacetime, time
dilatation, twin paradox, addition of velocities, length contraction, relativisticmomentum, mass, energy.
GTR: Reference frames and principle of equivalence, gravity and space and time:
bending of light by gravity, gravitational red shift, gravitational waves.
<strong>15. Atoms, electrons and photons:</strong> emission and absorption of
light, photoelectric effect and Einstein’s photon explanation, atomic line spectra and
energy levels, the Bohr model, Compton scattering, continuous spectra-Plank
radiation law, wave-particle duality.
<strong>16.The wave nature of particles and Quantum Mechanics:</strong> de
Broglie waves, electron diffraction, electron microscope, Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle, wave function and Schrődinger equation, Born’s interpretation of wave
function, Schrődinger equation- quantization, energy levels, stationary states, bound
states, tunneling, harmonic oscillator, structure of hydrogen atom and electron
probability distribution, electron spin, Pauli’s principle, selection rules, Zeeman effect,
X-ray spectra, periodic table.
<strong>17.Molecules and condensed matter:</strong> types of molecular bonds,
molecular spectra- (absorption, emission, Jablonski diagram), structure of solidscrystals, energy bands-insulators, semiconductors and conductors, Fermi energy.
<strong>18. Nuclear physics:</strong> atomic nuclei properties, nuclides and
isotopes, nuclear spins and nucear magnetic resonance, nuclear forces and liquid-drop
and the shell models, nuclear stability and radioactivity, alpha, beta and gamma
decays, activities and decay rates, biological effects of radiation, radiation doses and
radiation hazard, nuclear reactions and nuclear reactor.
<strong>19. Particle physics:</strong> fundamental particles, particle accelerators
and detectors, four forces, leptons, hadrons, conservation laws, quarks, standard
model and beyond, cosmology (Hubble law,expanding Universe).
Laboratory classes
Physics -Practical physics (laboratory)
<strong>Comment:</strong> Simple experiments explain and illustrate the physical
terms and laws introduced during lectures.To carry on these experiments with succes,
very simple devices are required and everyone can do similar experiments at
home.Simple experiments have mostly qualitative character and their main purpose is
to check students’ understanding.
<strong>1. Introduction to experimental logic:</strong> – intentional and
unintentional changes,drift,systematic variations,calculated and empirical
corrections,relative methods, null methods, why make precise measurements?.
<strong>2. Simple pendulum and physical pendulum:</strong> – introduction to
statistical treatment of data – statistical hypotheses,the importance of estimating
errors,systematic and random errors,the straight line – method of least squares.
<strong>2A.Laws of motion</strong> – simple experiments.
<strong>2B.Fluids</strong> – simple experiments.
<strong>3. Microwave oven:</strong> absorption of microwaves by water and
electrolyte solutions, electric field distribution inside the microwave oven.
<strong>4. NMR spectroscopy experiment:</strong> – proton relaxation in water.
<strong>3A.Electromagnetism</strong> – simple experiments (direct and alternating
current).
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<strong>3B.Electromagnetism</strong> – simple experiments
(magnetism,electromagnet DC and AC).
<strong>5.Optical bench and difraction:</strong> diffraction of laser wave (one,two
slits and diffraction grating)and properties of lens. Light wavelenght and human hair
diameter measurement.
<strong>6.Absorption,reflectance and spectrofluorimetry</strong> – absorption,
reflectance and fluorescence spectra of some dyes (3 advanced experiments).
<strong>7.Optical microscopy and optical imaging</strong> – principles of optical
microscopy (visual and electronic detection) and basic image analysis procedures
(advanced experiment).
<strong>5A.Optics and light</strong> – simple experiments (LED’s, color perception,
Snell’s laws, CD spectrometer,polarization).
Supplementary labs:
1.Gamma rays dosimetry.
2.Energy gap in german.
3.X-ray tomography
Method of calculating the final grade
Final credit will be estimated based on student’s activities, preparation of laboratory tasks and written
test. Details will be given during first lecture.
Final exam: multiple choice test.
Prerequisites and additional requirements
Not requested
Recommended literature and teaching resources
1. Lectures are a main source of information. Lecturer’s home page notes available on WWW page for
students, with specific links to all notes needed for the course.
Additional Literature will be provided for the selected topics, including adresses of WWW pages.
2. Feynman R.P, Leighton R.B. and Sands M.,The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman’s Tips
on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition (2nd ed.),3 volumes, Addison-Wesley, 2005.
3. Halliday D.,Resnick R.,Walker J., Fundamentals of Physics,9-th ed., J.Wiley&Sons,2011.
4. Hecht,Optics,4-th ed.,Addison Wesley, 2002.
Scientific publications of module course instructors related to the topic of
the module
Additional scientific publications not specified
Additional information
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Student workload (ECTS credits balance)
Student activity form
Student workload
Contact hours
15 h
Realization of independently performed tasks
60 h
Preparation for classes
50 h
Participation in laboratory classes
14 h
Participation in lectures
28 h
Examination or Final test
2h
Summary student workload
169 h
Module ECTS credits
6 ECTS
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