| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | General physics, Computer and applied physics | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Great Experiments in Physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Bratislav Obradović | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 3 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |||||||
| Access requirements | Electromagnetism and Optics | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | To give an overview of the most important experiments in physics. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Acquired basic knowledge on the design and realization of the great experiments in physics. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | The
subject consists of a series of lectures on the most important experiments
that have contributed to the development of physics. Their design, technical
realization, the method of analysis and the scientific conclusions that have
been made and which have improved theoretical concepts are analyzed. 1. Galilean experiments with free fall and inclined plane. 2. Newton experiments in optics. 3. Experiments on interference and diffraction (Newton, Young and Fresnel). 4. Gas laws and mechanical equivalent of heat. 5. Torsion balance in the study of the fundamental laws of physics (Coulomb and Cavendish). 6. Electromagnetism (Oersted, Ampere and Faraday). 7. Electromagnetic induction and electrolysis laws. 8. Electrical discharges in gases (Faraday, Crookes, Roentgen, Tesla, Thompson). 9. Natural radiation and induced transmutation elements. 10. Discovery of electron and atom structure. 11. Discovery of neutron and neutrino. In the second part of the course, the current big experiments in physics are presented. The reasons for their setting, the expected scientific results, their technical realization and the expected theoretical interpretation are analyzed. |
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| Examples/ practical classes | Scientific or student laboratories will be used for demonstrations of individual experiments. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Milorad Mlađenović: Razvoj fizike, IRO Građevinska knjiga, Beograd, 1985 | |||||||||
| 2 | Great Experiments in Physics: Firsthand Accounts from Galileo to Einstein ed. Morris H. Shamos, Dover Publication Inc., New York, 1987 | |||||||||
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| 4 | ||||||||||
| 5 | ||||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, demonstrations of individual experiments and student presentation | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 20 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 50 | ||||||||
| papers | ||||||||||
| presentations | 30 | |||||||||