F1620 Mechanics by your own hands

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2005
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Pavel Konečný, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc.
Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Pavel Konečný, CSc.
Timetable
Wed 13:00–13:50 F4,03017
Prerequisites
Requirements of physics on the level of grammar school.
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
Course objectives
The discipline is devoted to students of physics teaching This lecture is designet to provide insight into mechanics by set of demonstration experiments which can be done at home laboratory using common toys household and hobby materials.
Syllabus
  • 1. Newton`s laws, (water rocket, air rocket. pinq-pong ball cannon) 2.Gyroscopes, (gyroscope with counterweights, precession, gyroscope on rope, steering a bicycle, monorail car) 3. Corriolis force, (vessel for Coriolis demo, cyclone and anticyclone model) 4. Hydrodynamics, (viscosity, laminar and turbulent flow, smoke rings using PET bottle, lawn sprinkler and Feynman inverse sprinkler) 5. Bernoulli`s principle (ball suspended above and in PET bottle funnel, a ping pong ball suspended in the tilted air stream, flow in bent pipe, vacuum cannon) 6. Compressibility of fluids (breaking a bottle by water) 7. Static and dynamic stability (stability of hull, stability in flight, steering bicycle) 8. Vibrations and mechanical waves (function of stringed instrument - vibration excitation, Chladni figures) 9. Gyroscope, quantitative measurements - the precession frequency as a function of the torque and the angular velocity of the gyroscope.
Literature
  • HALLIDAY, David, Robert RESNICK and Jearl WALKER. Fyzika (Physics). 1st ed. Brno, Praha: Vutium, Prometheus, 2001. ISBN 80-214-1868-0. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Zápočet
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Autumn 2010 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2011 - acreditation, spring 2012 - acreditation, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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