PřF:F7661 School experiments lab. 1 - Course Information

F7661 School experiments laboratory 1

Extent and Intensity

0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Bochníček, Dr. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zbyněk Fišer (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Jurmanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
RNDr. Pavel Konečný, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Zdeněk Navrátil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

doc. Mgr. Zdeněk Navrátil, Ph.D.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Pavel Konečný, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science

Timetable

Tue 7:00–9:50 Fpp,02010, Thu 10:00–11:50 Fpp,02010, Fri 16:00–18:50 Fpp,02010

Prerequisites

F4050 Introduction to Microphysics || F4060 Introduction to microphysics || F4100 Introduction to Microphysics
Requirements of physics on the level of introductory course.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The course is devoted to students of physics teaching. Absolving the course a student obtains following abilities and skills:
Basic laboratory and technical skills.
Ability to prepare, perform and interpret demonstration experiment.
Ability to interpret fundamental experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electrostatics, electricity and magnetism, oscillation, waves, acoustics, optics.
Ability to explain how technical stuff works.

Learning outcomes

Basic laboratory and technical skills.
Ability to prepare, perform and interpret demonstration experiment.
Ability to interpret fundamental experiments in mechanics, thermodynamics, electrostatics, electricity and magnetism, oscillation, waves, acoustics, optics.
Ability to explain how technical stuff works.

Syllabus

• 1. Light sources and light detectors (infrared spectrum, UV spectrum, tungsten halogen lamp, arc lamp, line spectra, emission line spectra, dark line spectra, luminescence, principle of fluorescent tube, photoelectric effect, light on P-N junction, solar cell, stroboscopic effect, colour perception) 2.Optical elements and optical instruments (camera obscura, real and virtual image, converging and diverging lenses, spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, field of view, microscope, telescope, dark field, depth of field, resolving power) 3.Vibrations and mechanical waves (mass on spring, simple pendulum, physical pendulum, Blackburn pendulum, oscilloscope, microphone, Lissajous figures, beats and resonance, driven and damped harmonic motion.) 4. Sound (acoustics sources and detector, wave phenomena with a ripple tank, plane waves and circular waves, single slit diffraction, double-slit interference, interference between two sources, reflection and refraction of waves at a boundary, focusing by a concave reflector, Huygens's principle, standing waves, tuning fork, Chladni figures, organ pipe, monochord.) 5.Fluid mechanics (Pascal's law, equilibrium tubes, hydraulic press, hydrostatic paradoxon, Archimedes's law, Cartesian diver, viscosity of fluids, Bernoulli's principle, vacuum) 6.Thermodynamics ( thermal expansion of glass metal rod rubber band bimetallic strip, volume thermal expansion, change in the density of water with temperature, boiling at reduced and enhanced pressure, regelation-ice under pressure, thermal conductivity of metals, thermal convection in water, surface tension.) 7. Electrostatics (electrostatics attract and repulsion, Braun and Leaf electroscopes, triboelectricity, electrostatics induction, Van de Graaff generator, Wimshurst generator, electric wind, charge distribution on a conductor, discharge to various radii, electric field lines, hollow conducting sphere, field lines for two nearby charge, Faraday cage, parallel plate capacitor, parallel plate capacitor with dielectric, dissectible Leyden jar, ionization of air, electric mill, force on dielectric in an electric field,) 8. Electric current, magnetism, electromagnetic principle (effect of temperature on current in metal and semiconductor, Hall effect, Kirchhoff's laws, voltaic cell, magnetohydrodynamics, the magnetic field of a permanent magnets (bar, horseshoe, disc, ring), the magnetic field around a straight wire, (shaped wire, solenoid coil,), Oersted experiment, natural magnetism of lodestone, paramagnetic, ferromagnetic and diamagnetic materials, Curie point of nickel, the hysteresis loop of an magnetic material, force between two adjacent parallel current-carrying wires, force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field, Barlow's disc, thermoelectricity)

Literature

• HALLIDAY, David, Robert RESNICK and Jearl WALKER. Fyzika (Physics). 1st ed. Brno, Praha: Vutium, Prometheus, 2001. ISBN 80-214-1868-0. info
• Feynman, Richard P. - Leighton, Robert B. - Sands, Matthew. Feynmanove prednášky z fyziky 1. 2. vyd. Bratislava : Alfa, 1986. 451 s. Edícia matematicko-fyzikálnej literatúry.

Teaching methods

practical work, laboratory course, class experiment. The students work in pairs.

Assessment methods

Attendance is compulsory. The requirement for graded credit is to perform all exercises, pass three written and three oral examinations and elaborate on a project.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.

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