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Course code: IWS10171o14
Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Physics
Major: Water Engineering and Managment
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr Paweł Misiak
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: He has expertise in the field of mechanics, solid state physics, known types of traffic and laws of motion; understand issues of work, power and energy, knows the laws in the field of electrostatics and electrodynamics, the basic knowledge of wave motion; familiarity with the general structure of matter, understands the essence of radiation. It can calculate the multiplicity of basic mechanics, sets the parameters of various types of movements, indicates the basic physical parameters of solids and liquids; measures humidity, performs calculations work, power and energy, doing research spectrum and spectral activity radioactive samples

Competences: He understands the need for technological progress and risks resulting therefrom.

Prerequisites:

Course content: Classical mechanics, gravity fields, waves and vibrations, phenomenological thermodynamics (including heat transport) study of atomic physics, nuclear physics, molecular-kinematic theory, research methods, and systems of physical objects (spectroscopic methods, X-ray, NMR, et al.).

Recommended literature: 1. Przestalski S. 2001. Elementy fizyki, biofizyki i agrofizyki. Wyd. U. Wr. 2. Halliday D., Resnick R., Walker J. 2003. Fizyka. PWN W-wa. 3. Laboratorium z fizyki, biofizyki i agrofizyki. Praca zbiorowa, 2008, Wyd. Uniw. Przyrodniczego. 4. Young H.D., Freedman R.A. 2000, University Physics, Addison-Wesley.

Assessment methods: credit lab exam. The final score consist of score from classes (50%) and lecture (50%).

Comment: Lecture 1 Getting Started. Lecture 2 Kinematic elements (types and equations of movement) Lecture 3 Forces (forces actual inertia, equations) Lecture 4 Traversing of dynamics (mass, momentum). Lecture 5 The dynamics of the rotation, the rules of behavior. Lecture 6 Work, power, energy (forms of energy, conservation of energy). Lecture 7 Vibrations and Waves (equations, mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves - a division of matter waves). Lecture 8 Construction material (nucleus, the law of radiation, nuclear reactions, effects of nuclear radiation with matter). Lecture 9 Structure of matter (atom, molecule, solid band theory) Lecture 10 Elements of electrostatics (electrostatic and magnetic field, the movement of cargo in the box). Lecture 11 Electrodynamics (basic law, the laws of electrolysis). Lecture 12 Elements of the kinetic molecular theory. Lecture 13 Water (anomalous properties, surface tension, capillary transport). Lecture 14 Elements of thermodynamics (rules, temperature, internal energy, heat, enthalpy, entropy, chemical potential, thermodynamic equilibrium). Lecture 15 Transport of heat and mass transfer (diffusion, radiation, convection, thermal conductivity and its importance for living organisms). The type and extent of exercise: Exercise Laboratory Exercise 1 Simple machines. Exercise 2 Determination of density and specific gravity of solids and liquids. Exercise 3 Determination of the moment of inertia of a rigid body. Exercise 4 Determination of the acceleration due to gravity using a pendulum. Exercise 5 Centrifuge. Exercise 6 The test fluid flow through the horizontal wires. Exercise 7 Measurement of humidity. Exercise 8 The surface tension of the liquid. Exercise 9 Determination of the viscosity. Exercise 10 Determination of the heat of solids. Exercise 11 Entropy change in the spontaneous and the heat of fusion. Exercise 12 Hooke's Law and Exercise 13 Summary microscope and measuring the length of a microscope. Exercise 14 The study of spectra using spectral elements spectroscope. Exercise 15 Activity measurements of the radioactivity of the sample.