Module:

Place and time:

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Contents:

• Physical values, units, accuracy, measurement errors
• Mathematical methods and notations
• Kinematics of point mass, Newton’s Axioms
• Work and energy, power and efficiency, momentum, inertia, momentum of rotation
• Conservation laws and symmetries
• Gravitation, oscillation, waves, acoustics, Doppler effect
• Resting and flowing gases and liquids, effects of surfaces and interfaces
• Temperature, thermometer, therm. expansion, state equations, kinetic gas theory
• Van-der-Waals state equation, heat capacity, heat conduction, 1st law of thermodynamics, volume work, p-V diagram
• Adiabatic processes, 2nd law of thermodynamics
• Entropy, disorder and probability
• Electric charge, electric field, electric potential
• Capacitor, dielectric
• Stationary electric current, Ohm's law, electric work and power, electric circuits
• Electrolytes, electric interfaces, galvanic elements
• Electric current in gases and vacuum
• Magnetic field in vacuum and in matter
• Lorentz force, electric current and magnetic field
• Magnetic induction, inductance
• Switching, alternating current, impedance
• Electromagnetic waves
• Light rays, reflection and refraction, dispersion
• Geometrical optics, image generation, lenses, aberrations, optical instruments
• Interference, diffraction, resolution power
• Polarization, birefringence, Brewster’s angle
• Bohr’s atomic model, molecules
• Spectral lines, Beer's law
• Atomic nuclei, isotopes, nuclear reactions, ionizing radiation

General information:

Credit points: 6 (ME1030-KP06)
Language: offered only in German
Grading through: written exam

Further information:

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