PřF:FA120 History of Physics - seminar 2 - Course Information
FA120 History of Physics - seminar 2
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2002
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. RNDr. Vladimír Štefl, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Vladimír Štefl, CSc. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics (programme PřF, M-SS)
- Course objectives
- The role of history of physics in teaching physics. Physical and astronomical knowledge in ancient Greece. Ptolemy's geocentric theory. Copernicus' heliocentric theory.Galileo's mechanics. Definition of the fundamental terms in the Newton mechanics.Stability of the solar system and the three body problem.The principles of the particle and wave theory of light.The field conceptions of Faraday and Maxwell. The special and the general theory of relativity. Origin, consequences and verification. Photoelectric and Compton effects. Black Body Radiation, the relations. Classical theories of atomic structure, interpretation of the spectrum. Formulations of the quantum theory. Artificial radioactivity, transmutations of elements. Discovery of galaxies. Hubble's law.
- Literature
- Rogers, E.M.: Physics for the Inquiring Mind. The Methods, Nature and Phylosophy of Physical Science. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1966.
- Cooper, L.N.: An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics. Harper and Row Publishers, New York 1970.
- TRIGG, George L. Rešajuščije eksperimenty v sovremennoj fizike. Edited by I. S. Aleksejev, Translated by A. V. Davydov - G. V. Daniljan. Moskva: Mir, 1974, 159 s. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2002, recent)
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