Course detail

Seminar of Physics

FIT-IFSAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course covers a few basic goals.

The first goal is the revision of the physics high school knowledges with a focus on the basic terms and methods used in physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism.

The second goal of the course is the growth of engineering thinking, increasing the ability to analyze and solve simple and complex physical and technical issues.

The third goal of the course is to understand the basic physics laws in their contexts. Why things work the way they do. The goal is not only to describe physical reality, but also to understand physical principles.

The course is suitable for all students, but especially for those who came from high schools, where physics was taught only to limited extend.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. RNDr. Milada Bartlová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Physics (UFYZ)

Entry knowledge

Secondary school mathematics and physics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The credit will be awarded if the student has no more than two non-attendance exercises (and unjustified).


Attendance is mandatory. A signature on the attendance list is required.

Aims

The repetition and extending of the fundamental physical phenomena focusing on mechanics, electricity and magnetism. This course helps students who had no or limited physics in previous secondary school education.


  • Completion of high school knowledges,
  • improving analytical thinking,
  • gaining the ability to analyze simple and complex physical and technical issues,
  • understanding of physical laws and processes,
  • understanding why things in nature work the way they do. 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Halliday, David - Resnick, Robert - Walker, Jearl: Fyzika. VUTIUM - 2013. ISBN: 978-80-214-4123-1.
Středoškolské učebnice fyziky.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Petr Sadovský, Ph.D.

Syllabus

General content of the course:

  1. Basic terms
  2. Vectors and their use
  3. Kinematics, rectilinear motions, free fall
  4. Movement in a circle
  5. Curvilinear movements
  6. Dynamics, Newton's laws
  7. Mechanical work, potential energy, kinetic energy
  8. Electric field, Coulomb's law,
  9. Gauss's theorem of electrostatics
  10. Electric potential, electric current
  11. Electricity, capacitance, capacitors, resistors
  12. Magnetic field
  13. Final summary