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Course code: IGN10552o12Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Physics
Major: Geodesy and Cartography
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 4
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 20 / 20 / 0
Lecturer: prof. dr hab. Halina Kleszczyńska
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: The student acquires practical and theoretical knowledge of the basic physical laws and measurement methods or determination of physical quantities in the realm of, among others, classical and quantum mechanics, oscillatory and wave motion, electrostatics, electricity and magnetism; and also in the realm of solid state physics, geometrical and wave optics, nuclear physics and radioactivity. He will also come to know the conservation principles in their various forms.
Competences: The knowledge acquired enables understanding of the physical phenomena and processes that occur in nature, enables application of the laws of nature in the professional subjects, the Earth sciences in particular; it also constitutes the basis for conducting research, and for understanding the operation of apparatus and measuring instruments.
Prerequisites: general physics
Course content: The course content includes: classical mechanics and elements of quantum mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrostatics, electricity and magnetism, electric and magnetic properties of matter including, solid state physics, geometrical and wave optics, radioactivity and elements of nuclear physics, and also conservation principles.
Recommended literature: R. Resnick- D. Halliday, J. Walker: Podstawy fizyki, tom I -V, PWN, Warszawa, 2003.
R. Resnick- D. Halliday: Fizyka, tom I i II, PWN, Warszawa, 1999.
M. Skorko: Fizyka, PWN, Warszawa, 1979.
Cz. Bobrowski: Fizyka – krótki kurs dla inżynierów, WNT, Warszawa, 1981.
S. Przestalski: Elementy fizyki, biofizyki i agrofizyki, Wydawnictwo, Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocław, 2001.
Assessment methods: obligatory passing grades of the laboratory course and oral (I term) or oral and written exam (2 term) after semester II;
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