FY504: Classical Physics (10 ECTS)

STADS: 07000311

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.
1st and 2nd quarter.

Teacher responsible
Email: sannino@cp3.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
The Science year must be followed.

Course introduction
Classical physics is an introductory course in theoretical physics. One purpose of the course is to let the participants obtain some training in the formulation of mathematical models of physical problems. The course furthermore strengthens and generalizes the knowledge of mechanical physics obtained in the science year.

Qualifications
The course introduces the fundamental concepts of classical mechanics and their application on particles, particle systems, and continuous media. The participants will obtain familiarity with these concepts and competence in applying them on physical phenomena on all length scales. The course contains theoretical project work giving personal competence in collaboration with colleagues and in computational work.

Expected learning outcome


Subject overview
Special relativity: Michelson’s experiment, the Lorentz transformation, relativistic kinematics and dynamics.

Particles and particle systems: Energy, momentum, angular momentum; center of gravity and moment of inertia.

Accelerated coordinate frames: Fictive forces, the Foucault pendulum.

Central conservative force fields: Kepler’s laws and the solar system, Rutherford scattering and atomic and subatomic phenomena.

Lagrangian mechanics: Lagrange and Hamilton equations.

Rigid bodies: Application of Newton’s laws of motion on extended bodies, the top, the precession of the Equinoxes.

Continuum physics: Deformation of solids, sound in gases, liquids and solids, ideal and viscuous fluids.

Literature

• J.M. Knudsen and P.H. Hjorth: Elements of Newtonian Mechanics, Springer..

Syllabus
See syllabus.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
There are two projects. Students are only allowed to undergo examination if their project work has been approved.

Oral exam after 1st quarter. Internal evaluation. Marks according to the Danish 7-scale.

4 hour written exam after 2nd quarter. External evaluation. Marks according to the Danish 7-scale.

2 Project reports. Internal evaluation by lecturer. Passed/not passed.

Re-examination after 4th quarter.
The mode of exam at the re-examination may differ from the mode of exam at the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

Forelæsninger (46 t).
Eksaminatorietimer (48 t), heraf vil ca. 20 eksaminatorietimer benyttes til teoretisk projektarbejde.
Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
See deadline of enrolment.

Tuition fees for single courses
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