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. 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 of all labs are collected in a single report, which is submitted on the Learn environment.

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. There is one final exam at the end of the course.

RDI and work-related cooperation

There is no planned co-operation with companies.

Timing of exams and assignments

Final exam and lab report submission at the end of the course. Only one report from the small group.

International cooperation

no co-operation

Student workload

One credit point is counted to be 27 hours of student work. In reality this can be different depending how the groups share the work load. This is 5 cr course, so total is 135 h, of which 60 hours are worked in a classroom and labs. Homework, exam preparations and report writing takes the rest of the time.

Course part description

Theory exam is individual part and lab work is group work. All members of the group get the same amount of points from lab work, which is counted together with the exam points.

Further information

Physics lab work does not require any special clothing or equipment.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures and laboratory exercises are collected to a lab report. One final exam.
The actual dates will be checked at the beginning of this course implementation.

Qualifications

Calculus