FY2BP_VFE Significant Experiments

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Josef Janás, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Vladislav Navrátil, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Petr Sládek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Vladislav Navrátil, CSc.
Department of Physics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Gabriela Vohradská
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:10 laboratoř 86
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The scientific approach to building image of natural world have provided Galileo Galilei, students will understand that
Experiment is crucial for the development of science.
They will learn the basic methodology:
To create a hypothesis based on past experience, intuition.
To verify the hypothesis sensory experience or experiment.
To carry out deductions on hypotheses for unknown phenomena.
Syllabus
  • Classical Mechanics
  • Galileo- experiments   free fall and the tilted plane moving, 1590.
  • Classical theory of gravity
  • Cavendish using torsional weights confirmed gravitational force of law
  • Classical theory of electromagnetic field
  • . Coulomb (1736 - 1806) experiment-electrostatic forces . M. Ampere - magnetic fields (1775 - 1836) . Special theory of relativity
  • The Michelson-Morleyův experiment in 1881, 1887 . The general theory of relativity
  • R. Eötvös (1848 - 1919) Quantum Physics
  • 1887 H. Hertz, Einstein, Compton, C. J. Davisson Atomic and nuclear physics E. Rutherford, J. Franck, G. Hertz, L. Meitnerová
Literature
  • HAJKO, V. ad al. Fyzika v experimentoch. Bratislava: Veda, 1988, 428 s.
Assessment methods
seminar, final project
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018.
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