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Course Information

FA120 History of Physics - seminar 2

Faculty of Science
Spring 2000

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Vladimír Štefl, CSc. (lecturer)

Supervisor

doc. RNDr. Aleš Lacina, CSc.
Department of Physical Electronics - Physics Section - Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Vladimír Štefl, CSc.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics (programme PřF, M-SS)

Syllabus

• The role of history of physics in teaching physics. Physical and astronomical knowledge in ancient Greece. Ptolemy's geocentric theory. Copernicus' heliocentric theory.Galileo's mechanics. Definition of the fundamental terms in the Newton mechanics.Stability of the solar system and the three body problem.The principles of the particle and wave theory of light.The field conceptions of Faraday and Maxwell. The special and the general theory of relativity. Origin, consequences and verification. Photoelectric and Compton effects. Black Body Radiation, the relations. Classical theories of atomic structure, interpretation of the spectrum. Formulations of the quantum theory. Artificial radioactivity, transmutations of elements. Discovery of galaxies. Hubble's law.

Literature

• TRIGG, George L. Rešajuščije eksperimenty v sovremennoj fizike : Crucial experiments in modern physics (Orig.) : Crucial experiments in modern physics (Orig.). Moskva: Mir, 1974. 159 s. info
• Cooper, L.N.: An Introduction to the Meaning and Structure of Physics. Harper and Row Publishers, New York 1970.
• Rogers, E.M.: Physics for the Inquiring Mind. The Methods, Nature and Phylosophy of Physical Science. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1966.

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, spring 2012 - acreditation.

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