General Physics
Course Syllabus
| Course Code: | Α9Υ |
| Semester: | 1st |
| ECTS units: | 5 |
| Weekly Teaching Hours: | 4 |
| Course Page: | https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/TME164/ |
| Instructors: | GAIDAJIS GEORGIOS |
Course Description
Time and space, units, significant digits, acceleration of gravity, projectile motion, relativity of motion, Galileo transformations, Newton’s 1st, 2nd, 3rd laws, the 4 fundamental forces, weight, friction, Hooke’s law. Work in one and three dimensions, kinetics, dynamic gravitational energy, conservative forces, conservation of energy, law of gravity, Kepler’s laws, momentum of a system of particles, centre of mass and its motion, collisions, motion of a solid body, moment of inertia, angular momentum of a solid body, torsional momentum, conservation of angular momentum. Statics of solid bodies, levers and pulleys, harmonic motion, simple, natural and torsional pendulum, oscillations. Finite gas law, Maxwell’s distribution, heat as a form of energy, thermal expansion, thermal equilibrium, adiabatic equation.
Purpose of the course
Presentation of a modern view of classical mechanics and thermodynamics for the student of engineering schools who mainly needs and applies physics as a tool and is not interested in, for example, the atomic structure of matter. Since Physics cannot be separated from their function, the theoretical part of the course is presented from the Physicists’ point of view, while the practical part (practical exercises, applications) emphasizes examples from everyday life and its interconnection with applications of technical engineering.
