Code: mk3mfiza04rx17-en
ECTS Credit Points: 4
Evaluation: exam
Year, Semester: 1st year, 1st semester
Its prerequisite(s): -
Further courses are built on it: Yes/No
Number of teaching hours/week (lecture + practice): 2+2
Topics:
Geometrical optics, kinematics and dynamics of particles, concept of mechanical work, kinetic and potential energy, electrostatics, electric fields around conductors, transport processes, steady-state transport of electric charge, steady-state heat transfer (conduction, convection and radiation)
Literature:
Compulsory:
- Alvin Halpern: 3,000 Solved Problems in Physics, Schaum's Solves Problem Series (2011), Isbn-13: 978-0071763462
- Jerry S. Faughn, Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille, Charles A. Bennett: Serway’s College Physics, Published 2005 by Brooks Cole Print, Isbn 0-534-99723-6
| 1st week | 8th week |
|---|---|
| Registration week | 1st drawing week Test 1 |
| 2nd week | 9th week |
| Lecture: Geometrical (ray) optics. Practice:Solving problems for the reflection and refraction of light beams and for the imaging of lenses and compound lenses. | Lecture: Electrostatics II. Electric voltage and potential, capacitance, capacitance of planar, cylindrical and spherical capacitors, the energy of capacitors, capacitor circuits. Practice:Calculating the capacitance and stored energy of different types of capacitors and capacitor connections. |
| 3rd week | 10th week |
| Lecture: Kinematics of a particle I. Practice: Solving problems for uniform and uniformly varying motions. Practice: Solving problems for uniform and uniformly varying motions. | Lecture: Transport processes Concept of physical system, current intensity and source strength, extensive and intensive physical properties, conduction and convection current. Equation of balance and steady-state conduction. Thermal conductivity and conductive resistance. Conductive resistance circuits. Practice: Application of the equation of balance and steady-state conduction in different physical problems. |
| 4th week | 11th week |
| Lecture: Kinematics of a particle II. Description of the motion by vector quantities: Position vector, vector velocity and acceleration. Example: throwing problems, circular motion. Practice: Solving throwing and circular motion problems. | Lecture: Steady state transport of electric charge (Direct electric current). Electric current intensity, electrical conductivity and resistance, Ohm’s law, electric work and power, characteristics of Dc sources,Kirchhoff’s circuit laws, solution of DC circuits Practice: Solution of Dc circuits |
| 5th week | 12th week |
| Lecture: Kinetics of a particles I. Inertial frame of reference, Newton’s Laws, force formulas. Application of Newton’s Laws in static and dynamic problems. Practice: Application of Newton’s laws in kinetic problems. | Lecture: Steady-state heat transfer I - Thermal conduction. Concept of heat current and thermal conduction, equation of steady-state thermal conduction, thermal conductivity and resistance, steady state temperature distribution in a one dimensional wall of thermal conductivity Practice: Solving thermal conduction problems |
| 6th week | 13th week |
| Lecture: Kinetics of a particles II. Concept of work and kinetic energy, work-energy theorem. Application of work-energy theorem in dynamic problems. Practice: Application of Newton’s laws and the work energy theorem in kinetic problems. | Lecture: Steady-state heat transfer II - Thermal convection. Concept of thermal convection and heat transfer, equation of steady-state heat transfer, heat transfer coefficient and resistance, overall heat transfer coefficient and resistance Practice: Calculating the steady state temperature distribution in a one dimensional wall of thermal conductivity. |
| 7th week | 14th week |
| Lecture: Electrostatics I. Electric field strength and flux, Gauss’s law for electricity (Maxwell’s first equation), potential energy in electric fields. Practice: Calculation of the electric field strength and its flux in the electrostatic fields of different charge arrangements. | Lecture: Steady-state heat transfer III - Thermal radiation. Thermal radiation characteristics, concept of black body radiation, fundamental laws of thermal radiation (Planck distribution, Wien displacement law, Stefan-Boltzmann and Kirchhoff’s law), gray body radiation Practice: Solving thermal radiation problems. |
| 15th week | |
| 2nd drawing week Test 2 |
Requirements
A, for a signature:
Participation at lectures is compulsory. Students must attend lectures and may not miss more than three of them during the semester. In case a student does so, the subject will not be signed and the student must repeat the course. Attendance at lectures will be recorded by the lecturer. Being late is equivalent with an absence. In case of further absences, a medical certification needs to be presented. Missed lectures must be made up for at a later date, being discussed with the tutor.
Students have to write two midterm tests during the semester. The first (40 points max) in the 8th, the second (40 points max) in the 14th week. At the end of the semester everybody will get a seminar grade on the basis of the table below: 0-39 = Fail (1); 40-50 = Close fail (2); 51-60 = Improvement needed (3); 61-70 = Very good (4); 71-80 = Excellent (5)
If somebody fails then he has to write both tests in the 1st week of the exam period again. If the result is 40 points (50%) or better, then he can take an exam. If somebody has to repeat his midterm tests then his seminar grade can’t be better than (2).
There will be homework from week to week. Only students who have handed in all their homework at the time of the midterm test will be allowed to write it. The problems in the midterm tests will be selected from the homework assignments.
B, for a grade:
Everybody will get an exam grade for their exam. The final grade will be the average of the seminar and exam grade. If it is for example (3.5) then the lecturer decides if it is (3) or (4).