IT physics (5 cr)
Code: IT00EB82-3007
General information
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
-
OTMI23SPSoftware 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