Course title

Obligatory/elective

Semester

Total hour schedule

ECTS credits

Physics

obligatory

1

75

6

Lectures: skill of reducing problems to physical models, skill of finding equations for given physical models, skill of finding the physics behind different problems, competence in solving specialized problems, performance in problem-solving exercises, competence in designing physical experiments verifying solutions of equations. Practical Sessions: skill of working in lab, skill of teamwork on lab setups, measurements, and data handling, acquaintance with the physics of problems, measurements, and data handling.

LECTURES

PRACTICE

Auditory

(up to 30 stud.)

Experimental/Design practice(up to 10 stud.)

Construction

(up to 6 students)

Seminar

(up to 30 stud.)

60

1

14

-

-

Mehanics of material particles and rigid bodies with experiments during lectures. Dynamics, work, energy, strength, conservation laws. Vibrations, curvilinear motion, nutation, precession, gravitation, relative systems.

Mechanics of fluids with experiments during lectures. Euler’s method, fluid statics. Laminar flows, body motion. Fluid viscosity, vortices, model testing. Capillarity, surface tightness.

Electro-magnetism with experiments during lectures. Coulomb law, energy, potential, voltage, condensers, electric dipole, dielectrics, current. Magnetic field. Alternating current, law of induction, work, power. Transformers, electric resonance, electromagnetic waves.

Optics with experiments and computer simulations during lectures. Fermat’s principle, plane waves, spherical waves, spreading of waves. Spreading of waves through media, ideal and spheric diopter, spherical aberration, colors, photometry, vision. .Geometrical and physical optics, interference, diffraction, polarisation, lasers.

Acoustics with experiments and computer simulations during lectures. Longitudinal waves, creation and spreading of waves in media, supersonic wave fronts. Hearing.

Heat with experiments and computer simulations during lectures. Temperature, kinetic-molecular theory, work.Heat, thermodynamic properties of bodies, calorimeters, Joule’s equivalent. Thermodynamics, 1st and 2nd law. Thermodynamic cycles, Otto cycle, Diesel cycle, Carnot cycle, heat engine, heat pump. . Phases. Conduction, convection, and radiation and their combinations, properties of substances.

Atomistics, structure and testing of materials with tests and computer simulations during lectures. Matter waves, photoelectric effect, line spectra, Franck-Hertz experiment, Bohr model. of atoms and molecules, structure of materials, properties of materials, properties of chemical bindings. Properties of materials.

5.1 Obligatory

Kulišić, P. Mehanika I toplina, ŠK, Zagreb, 1991.

Henč-Bartolić, V. I Kulišić P., Valovi i optika, ŠK, Zagreb, 1989.

Pavičić, M., Zbirka riješenih zadataka iz fizike, (2.nd edition), Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Zagreb, 1984.

5.2 Recommended

Babić, e., Krsnik, R., and Očko,M., Zbirka riješeniih zadataka iz fizike, ŠK, Zagreb, 1988.

Exam requirement/required preknowledge:

Assessment mode

Written and oral

Assessment based on academic year continuous checks

Exempt from written assessment upon dedicating laboratory work and preliminary exams