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Course code: RRSS20056o14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Agrophysics
Major: Agriculture
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 6
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Janina Gabrielska, dr Janusz Miśkiewicz
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student acquires physical knowledge necessary in further study in the field phenomena related to agriculture sciences. She/he provides correct description of translational and rotational motions. Student can apply the fundamental conservation principles to the description of real systems. She/he knows laws explaining laminar flow of liquids or gazes and can apply them to real systems. Skills: Student can conduct simple experiments and measurements of physical quantities without assistance. She/he analyses the experimental system pointing out its important elements and presents its physical description.
Competences: Personal and social competences: Student understands physical phenomena and laws that describe it. She/he understands necessity of self-study. Student is able to cooperate in teams and follows safety rules while conducting experiments. She/he is responsible for the experimental set.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: It is required to master knowledge of mathematics and physics on the secondary school level.
Course content: Course contents: The physics role in the agricultural sciences. Classical mechanics of translational and rotational movements, work, energy, energy and momentum conservation principles. Electricity and magnetism. Coulomb law, interaction of magnetic fields, Gauss law, electromagnetic induction. Thermodynamics, ideal gas equation. Elements of atomic physics: photoelectric phenomenon, atom and nucleus of atom structure. Types of radiation and its influence on the living organisms.
Recommended literature: Recommended literature: 1. S. Przestalski “Elementy fizyki, biofizyki i agrofizyki”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2001 2. D. Halliday “Fundamentals od Physics”, Warszawa PWN 2003 3. R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leightan, M. Sands “The Feynman Lectures on Physics”, Warszawa PWN 2001 4. H. Szydłowski “Pracownia fizyczna”, Warszawa PWN 1994 5. Laboratorium fizyki, biofizyki i agrofizyki pod red. H. Kleszczyńskiej, Wydawnictwo Akademii Rolniczej, Wrocław 2008
Assessment methods: Assessment methods: Credit on the laboratory is given based on the conducted experiments, presented reports and answers presented during the laboratory. There is a written exam after the first semester. Minimal level of knowledge: 60%.
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