Fundamentals of Experimental Physics I

Mechanics:

• Introduction, units, error in measurement
• coordinate systems, kinematics
• free fall, motion in 3D, circular motion, superposition of motions, Newton's laws, momentum, inertial and gravitational mass
• pendulum, superposition of forces, frictional force, centripetal force, spring force, gravitational force, reference system, pseudo forces

Hydrostatics and hydrodynamics:

• liquids and gases, pressure, Pascal's principle, compression of liquids and gases
• floatation, surface tension, flowing liquids, continuity equation, Bernoulli equation, Torricelli's law
• real liquids, viscosity, pipe flow of a real liquid, Hagen-Poiseuille

Thermodynamics:

• fundamentals, amount of substance, temperature, thermal energy, ideal gas, velocity distribution, Brownian motion, change of state
• first law of thermodynamics, isotherm, adiabatic curve, isochore
• thermal engines, Carnot cycle, efficiency, Stirling engine, heat generation, heat pump, Otto engine
• reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, second law of thermodynamics, temperature zero-point
• real gases, phase diagrams, phase changes
• heat transport, convection, heat transfer, thermic conduction, heat transmission, heat radiation

After the successful participation in the module the student is able to:

1. reflect fundamental physical quantities and approaches in classical mechanics
2. apply and solve fundamental equations of practical problems in mechanics
3. describe the fundamentals of hydrostatics and hydrodynamics
4. handle elementary problems quantitatively in mechanics of fluids
5. explain the terms of thermodynamics and the laws of thermodynamics
6. deal with thermodynamic cycles and thermal engines
7. comprehend the properties of real gases and the phenomena of heat transfer

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Lecture, presentations, videos, demonstration of experiments

Transparencies are downloadable from the lecture web page

• Paul A. Tipler: "Physik", Spektrum Akademischer Verlag. Heidelberg
• Halliday, Resnick, Walker: "Halliday Physik - Bachelor Edition", Wiley-VCH Verlag
• P. Dobrinski, G. Krakau, A. Vogel: "Physik für Ingenieure", Teubner Verlag.

There will be a written exam of 90 minutes duration. Therein the achievement of the competencies given in section learning outcome is tested exemplarily at least to the given cognition level using calculation problems and comprehension questions.