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IT physicsLaajuus (5 cr)

Code: IT00EB82

Credits

5 op

Teaching language

  • English
  • Finnish

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 27.04.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree programme in software engineering
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • OTMI23SP
    Software Engineering, full-time studies
Small groups
  • 1
  • 2

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. 8th or newer edition.
Tekniikan fysiikka, Edita. (in Finnish)
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Part of the course content can be programming Physics demo programs.

Employer connections

No

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

International connections

No

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

04.11.2024 - 17.11.2024

Timing

13.01.2025 - 02.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Information Technology
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • ITMI24SP
    Information technology, full-time studies
Small groups
  • 1
  • 2

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. All editions are enough, after 8th edition all exercises are in SI units.
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Employer connections

To be settled at the course kick off.

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

International connections

no co-operation

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

06.11.2023 - 17.11.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 28.04.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

1 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Ohjelmistotekniikan koulutus
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Groups
  • OTMI22SP
    Software Engineering, full-time studies

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. 8th or newer edition.
Tekniikan fysiikka, Edita. (in Finnish)
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Part of the course content can be programming Physics demo programs.

Employer connections

No

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

International connections

No

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

06.11.2023 - 17.11.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 26.04.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Information Technology
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • ITMI23SP
    Information technology, full-time studies
Small groups
  • 1
  • 2

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. All editions are enough, after 8th edition all exercises are in SI units.
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Employer connections

To be settled at the course kick off.

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

International connections

no co-operation

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

07.11.2022 - 18.11.2022

Timing

09.01.2023 - 28.04.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Information Technology
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Scheduling groups
  • Pienryhmä 1 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Pienryhmä 2 (Size: 20. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • ITMI22SP
    Information technology, full-time studies
Small groups
  • Pienryhmä 1
  • Pienryhmä 2

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. All editions are enough, after 8th edition all exercises are in SI units.
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Employer connections

To be settled at the course kick off.

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

07.11.2022 - 18.11.2022

Timing

09.01.2023 - 28.04.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

1 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree programme in software engineering
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Scheduling groups
  • Group A (Size: 11. Open UAS: 0.)
  • Group B (Size: 11. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • OTMI21SP
    Software Engineering, full-time studies
Small groups
  • Group A
  • Group B

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. 8th or newer edition.
Tekniikan fysiikka, Edita. (in Finnish)
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Part of the course content can be programming Physics demo programs.

Employer connections

No

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

International connections

No

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus

Enrollment

08.11.2021 - 21.11.2021

Timing

10.01.2022 - 29.04.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Mikkeli Campus

Teaching languages
  • English
Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Information Technology
Teachers
  • Reijo Vuohelainen
Teacher in charge

Reijo Vuohelainen

Groups
  • ITMI21SP
    Information technology, full-time studies

Objective

You understand the quantities and units used in physics. You can calculate how objects move with the equations of motion and energy principle. You understand the principles of producing and conducting heat. You understand the mechanics of signal transmission and attenuations.

Content

What are SI units?
What do displacement, speed and acceleration mean?
What are heat flux and conduction rate?
What does the refractive index of a medium mean?

Materials

Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley. All editions are enough, after 8th edition all exercises are in SI units.
Lecture notes, homework and lab work tasks are on the Learn platform. Lab work are done in groups of three students and the results are collected in single report.

Teaching methods

You will attend teaching and guidance sessions as specified in the weekly schedule.
Your study routine is determined by the scheduled group sessions and by the self-study assignments. You will do the labs in small groups of three students.

Employer connections

To be settled at the course kick off.

Exam schedules

Final exam at the end of the course.

Student workload

135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homeworks, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
To be settled at the course kick off.

Qualifications

Calculus