Physics

• 26 hrs lectures
• 7 hrs exercises
• 13 hrs laboratories
• 6 hrs pc labs

• 60 pts final exam (30 pts written part, 30 pts test part)
• 20 pts mid-term test (10 pts written part, 10 pts test part)
• 20 pts labs

The students understand basic physical phenomena, are able to present corresponding laws both in descriptive way and in terms of math relations. They can solve less complicated problems related to the above phenomena and describe and explain the laboratory experiments, they carried out.

To acquire the understanding of basic properties and features of phenomena in physics.

Vector operations. Fundamentals of differential calculus of function of one and more variables, fundamentals of integral calculus.

1. Quantities and units in physics. Mechanics of a particle. Laws of motion.
2. Work and energy. Field of gravitation forces.
3. Electric interaction. Charges and fields.
4. Gauss' law. Potential.Capacity.
5. Conductors, semiconductors,dielectrics. Electric current.
6. Magnetic interaction. Magnetic fields of electric currents. Ampere's law. Forces in magnetic fields.
7. Electromagnetic induction, Maxwell' laws.
8. Oscillations and waves. Interference. Acoustic waves.
9. Electromagnetic waves, matter waves. Doppler effect.
10. Light and optics. Reflection, mirror and diffusion components. Refraction
11. Elements of fiber optics. Light polarization, difraction, light absorption.
12. Interference, diffraction. Optical gratings. Holography.
13. Elements of quantum physics. Wave properties of particles, the uncertainty principle. Barrier tunneling. Particle in a well.

1. Scalars, vectors. Basic operations.
2. Position vector. Linear momentum. Newton's laws. Work, energy, power. Friction.
3. Electric charges and forces. Motion of charges.
4. Potential, work of electric forces.
5. Aplication of Gauss law, distributed charge.
6. Magnetic fields of electric currents. Motion of electric charges in magnetic fields.
7. Electromagnetic induction.
8. Waves, characteristic quantities. The Doppler acoustic effect.
9. Plane electromagnetic wave - parameters 
10. Snell's laws.
11. Brewster's angle, total internal reflection. 
12. Diffraction gratings, slits.
13. The quantum well. Microscopic quantum wells and structures.

1. Speed of light. Dispersion of light. Ray optics experiments.
2. Experiments in thermodynamics. The Stirling engine.
3. Study of magnetic domains by means of video-microscope.
4. Fiber optics experimental set OPTEL.
5. Interference and diffraction of light and microwaves. The Michelson experiment. Holograms.
6. Light polarization. Absorption (using lasers).
7. Photoeffect. Planck's constant.
8. X-ray radiation. Absorption, dispersion and reflection.
9. Hall efect, charge concentrations.

Duty credit requires the experiments measurement and laboratory reports submission.

Mid-term examination, laboratory practice and final examination are monitored, and points earning parts of students' learning. Mid-term examination has no make-up.