Course detail
Seminar of Physics
FIT-IFSAcad. year: 2019/2020
The course is focused on the basic terms and methods used in physics. It teaches students to describe real events in inanimate nature and to understand them. It repeats and expands the subject of physics, which is common in high schools: Basic concepts of mechanics, electric field, capacitance, capacitors, electric current, resistors, magnetic field.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
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.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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Aims
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.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
High school physics textbooks.
Středoškolské učebnice fyziky.
Student texts of secondary school physics.
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Fundamentals seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 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