| Area of Mathematics: | Physics (EPh) |
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| Semester: | 3o | ||
| Course ID: | 32501 | ||
| Course Type: | Elective | ||
| Teaching hours per week: | Theory: 3 | Practice: 1 | Laboratory: 0 |
| ECTS : | 5 | ||
| Eclass: | For the course’s material, click here. | ||
| Instructors: | Vasilios Zarikas | ||
Description
- Mechanics: (a) Kinematics in one and two dimensions, reference systems and Galilean transformation, circular motion, relative motion. (b) Newtonian dynamics and laws, friction, linear momentum, momentum conservation. Gravity and Law of Universal Attraction. (c) Work and energy, kinetic and dynamic energy, energy conservation, collisions (d) solid body dynamics, moment of inertia, rotation, conservation of rotation, rotation of solid body, kinetic energy of rotation, rolling.
- Oscillations and Waves: Free oscillation and simple harmonic motion, mathematical and physical pendulum, superposition of harmonic motions, damping oscillations, forced oscillations, resonance. Wave motion, plane and spherical waves, sound waves and acoustics, Doppler effect, superimposed and stationary waves.
- Thermodynamics: Temperature and ideal gas, kinetic theory of gases, Maxwell distribution, internal energy, specific heat and heat capacity, real gases, state equations of ideal and real gases, kinetic theory of gases, 1st law of thermodynamics, reversible and non reversible procedures, 2nd law of thermodynamics.
The training of the exercises (laboratory part of the course) includes the following topics:
- solid body density (by introducing experimental errors and learning to use a stopwatch / vernier, micrometer, stopwatch, electronic balance),
- acceleration of gravity (from the period and length of the mathematical pendulum),
- Newton constant by Cavendish method (from rotational oscillations, with torsional scale, Laser, curtain),
- constant coefficient of a spring (from harmonic oscillations and Hooke’s law),
- the moment of inertia of a solid body (from rotational oscillations),
- the shear and torsion measure (from rotational oscillations),
- of the viscosity of liquids by the Stokes method (water, oil, glycerol),
- the speed of sound in the air (with sound tube, loudspeaker and acoustic generator),
- specific heat and thermal conductivity (with calorimeter),
- heat expansion coefficient of a metallic bar ,
- and the experimental study of impulses, momentums and collisions (with air track) as well as the Doppler effect.
Bibliography
- Serway R.A., Jewett J.W., Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol I
- Feynman R., Leighton R., Sands M, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. I
