Course Director:
Nikolaos Zacharopoulos
co-lecturer:
Paraskevas Papanikos
Course Code:
1403
Educational Units:
4
ECTS Units: 6
Type:
Compulsory (C)
Semester:
03 (Winter)
Hours:
4 hours lecture
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Mechanics: Vectors, Newton laws, kinetic energy and work, potential energy and conservation of energy, center of mass and linear momentum, collisions, rotation and angular momentum, oscillations. Thermodynamics: temperature and heat, first law of thermodynamics, entropy and second law. Waves and sounds.
The students are able to:
- understand the basic concepts of physics (Mechanics, thermodynamics and waves)
- solve engineering problems using fundamental principles
- develop the mathematical problem using the initial conditions of the physical problem
- Halliday, Resnick, Krane, Physics Α.
- Halliday, Resnick, Krane, Physics Β.