Study Guide

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?

Opiskelumateriaali

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.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

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.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

To be settled at the course kick off.

Tentit ja muut määräajat

Final exam at the end of the course.

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

no co-operation

Opiskelijan työmäärä

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