| Code: | F 860 |
| Department: | Department of Experimental Physics |
| Course director: | Miklós Molnár |
| Credits: | 2 |
| Semester: | 8th |
| Hours/week: | 2+0 |
| Prerequisities: | none |
| Type of assessment: | K |
Course description:
On the concepts of the essence of
the world in the ancient natural philosophy. Archimedes. The school of
Alexandria. Physics in the middle ages. Copernicus, Tycho de Brache, Kepler.
The mechanics of Stevin and Galileo. F. Bacon and Descartes. The life and
work of Newton: the laws of motion, the theory of gravitation. The development
of optics, optics in the ancient times, optics in the XVI XVII centuries,
the optics of Newton and Huyghens. Views on the wave nature of light. The
formation of the phenomenological theory of heat. The mechanical equivalence
of heat. The evolution of thermodynamics. The law of conservation of energy
(heat engines, perpetuum mobile). The formation of the kinetic theory of
heat. The Maxwell demon, Brownian motion, The works of Boltzmann. The problem
of black body radiation and light absorption. The first discoveries in
electricity and magnetism (Coulomb's torsion balance galvanic electricity).
The laws and effects of electric currents. Views on the electromagnetic
field and on the nature of electricity. The formation of the special theory
of relativity (the experiments of Fizeau and Foucault, Michelson, Lorentz
and Minkowski). The formation of the general theory of relativity. The
life and work of A. Einstein. The models of the atom. The discoveries of
the nucleus and of the elementary particles. The history of nuclear fission.
The life of A. Nobel, the history of the Nobel-price, Nobel-price winners
in physics, Hungarian born Nobel laureates. The development of physics
in Hungary. Ányos Jedlik and his work. Roland Eötvös and
his work. Significant Hungarian physicists of our recent past.
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