Seminar of Physics

• 26 hrs exercises

Completion of high school knowledges,
improving analytical thinking,
gaining the ability to analyze simple and complex physical and technical issues,
understanding of physical laws and processes,
understanding why things in nature work the way they do.

The course covers a few basic goals.

The first goal is the revision of the physics high school knowledges with a focus on the basic terms and methods used in physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism.

The second goal of the course is the growth of engineering thinking, increasing the ability to analyze and solve simple and complex physical and technical issues.

The third goal of the course is to understand the basic physics laws in their contexts. Why things work the way they do. The goal is not only to describe physical reality, but also to understand physical principles.

The course is suitable for all students, but especially for those who came from high schools, where physics was taught only to limited extend.

For an engineer, it is essential to be able to solve complex technical problems from different areas of technology. The necessary premise is creative analytical thinking.

Physics not only provides engineers with insights into the functioning of natural laws, but also teaches them how to analyze, describe and solve complex problems. If an engineer gains and masters these skills, he/she will be successful throughout his/hers professional career.

The course is suitable for all IT specializations. However, especially for specializations in hardware, IoT, cyber physical systems, robotics, embedded systems, industrial IT systems, computer graphics and multimedia, virtual and augmented reality, computer vision, gaming industry, sound, speech and natural language processing, bioinformatics, intelligent systems, intelligent devices, mathematical methods in IT.

Secondary school mathematics and physics.

• Student texts of secondary school physics.
• Halliday, David - Resnick, Robert - Walker, Jearl: Fundamentals of Physics. 2013. ISBN-13: 978-1118886328.
• Středoškolské učebnice fyziky.
• High school physics textbooks.

General content of the course:

1. Basic terms
2. Vectors and their use
3. Kinematics, rectilinear motions, free fall
4. Movement in a circle
5. Curvilinear movements
6. Dynamics, Newton's laws
7. Mechanical work, potential energy, kinetic energy
8. Electric field, Coulomb's law,
9. Gauss's theorem of electrostatics
10. Electric potential, electric current
11. Electricity, capacitance, capacitors, resistors
12. Magnetic field
13. Final summary

Credit will be awarded if the student does not have more than two absences from the demonstration exercise (even unjustified). A higher number of absences must be duly excused (medical certificate, etc.), the replacement of these excused absences is the elaboration of the given examples. In the last week of the semester there will be a small control test of knowledge and skills, which must be attended or arranged for a replacement.

Attendance is mandatory. A signature on the attendance list is required.

Credit will be awarded if the student does not have more than two absences from the demonstration exercise (even unjustified). A higher number of absences must be duly excused (medical certificate, etc.), the replacement of these excused absences is the elaboration of the given examples. In the last week of the semester there will be a small control test of knowledge and skills, which must be attended or arranged for a replacement.