IT physics (5 cr)

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?

Course material

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.

Study forms and 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.

RDI and work-related cooperation

No

Timing of exams and assignments

Final exam at the end of the course.

International cooperation

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