| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics, General physics, Computer and applied physics, Meteorology, and Astrophysics | |||||||||
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| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Physics Laboratory 1 | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Dr Đorđe Spasojević | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Ass. Prof. dr Zoran Popović, Ass. Prof. Dr Ivan Videnović; PhD students: Svetislav Mijatović, Nora Trklja, Dragutin Jovković, Katarina Miletić, Srđan Stavrić | |||||||||
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| ECTS | 4 | Status (required/elective) | Mandatory | |||||||
| Access requirements | No conditions | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Students get familiar with basic measuring instruments and different measurement techniques, as well as how to independently setup and perform experiments from physical mechanics. Special attention is paid on collecting and processing of measured data, and on their presenting like in the form of modern scientific papers. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Students are trained for independent experimental work in the area of physical mechanics. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Basic properties of measuring instruments (range, accuracy, precision and resolution). 2. Estimating the uncertainty of a single and repeated direct measurement. 3. Systematic errors and their reduction in scientific measurements. 4. Measurements using sensors and acquisition systems for automatic data collection; acquaintance with accompanying software. 5. Acquaintance with commercial software packages for numerical processing and graphical presentation of experimental data. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | 1. Introduction to measurement of length and basic length measuring instruments (measuring tape, mechanical and digital caliper, mechanical and digital micrometer, mechanical comparator, cathetometer). 2. Measurement of time and basic time measuring instruments (digital and mechanical chronometer); measurement of duration of single and repeated events; estimating the uncertainty due to human reaction time. 3. Measurement of mass and basic mass measuring instruments (mechanical equal arm balance and digital scale); correction on upthrust. 4. Measuring of force using dynamometer and force sensors. 5. Indirect measurement of volume and density of solid bodies and liquids; estimation of measurement uncertainty. 6. Study of small oscillations of mathematical pendulum and determination of Earth's gravitational acceleration; influence of oscillation amplitude on the pendulum's period for large angle oscillations. 7. Measurement of Earth's gravitational acceleration with physical pendulum. 8. Study of translational laws of motion - oscillation on inclined plane. 9. Study of basic laws of rotational motion. 10. Study of elastic and plastic deformations of solid bodies and determination of Young's modulus of elasticity. 11. Measurement of torsional modulus and recording of the mechanical hysteresis. 12. Study of free, damped and forced oscillations using contactless - optical measurement technique. 13. Experimental study of collisions of discs in horizontal plane using contactless - optical measurement technique. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Đ. Spasojević, Laboratorija fizike 1 (Fizički fakultet, Beograd, 2013) | |||||||||
| 2 | S. Božin, M. Napijalo, S. Žegarac, J. Božin, P. Vidaković, J. Dojčilović, Lj. Zeković, Praktikum iz fizike- Laboratorijske vežbe- Fizička mehanika, molekularna fizika, termodinamika (Fizički fakultet, Beograd, 2000) | |||||||||
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| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, experimental work. | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | written examination | |||||||||
| practicals | oral examination | |||||||||
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