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Lesson Code: 1.6
Semester: 1st Semester
Category: Compulsory
Hours: 2h Theory + 2h Lab
ECTS credits: 5
LEARNING RESULTS
The students after the end of the course:
- they will have acquired general theoretical knowledge in the special chapters of general Physics, which form a basic background for a series of other courses in their specialty, while
- they will have helped to understand modern methods, technologies and more generally applications that have been established, are already being used or are about to be introduced in practice.
- they will have acquired fluency and familiarity in the handling of measuring instruments, the process of the measurements themselves and the statistical processing of experimental data, the concept of error and the qualitative and quantitative estimation of quantities.
General Skills
- Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, also using the necessary technologies
- Teamwork
- Generating new research ideas
COURSE CONTENT
Theoretical part
- UNIT 1
Introduction
The physical world
physical quantities – systems of units
Energy in Nature
Work – Power and simple machines - UNIT 2
Optics and principles of operation of optical instruments, elements of wave optics – polarization of light – Lasers and their applications - MODULE 3
Fluid Mechanics (principles of hydrostatics, pressure and measurements, real and ideal fluids, elements of hydrodynamics, types of flows and classes of fluids, surface tension, convection and osmosis phenomena, exercises and numerical examples of applications). - UNIT 4
Heat and principles of Thermodynamics (Heat propagation, calorimetry, changes of state of bodies, laws and axioms of thermodynamics, study of biological phenomena, exercises and numerical examples of applications). - UNIT 5
Sensors and transducers (electrical measurements and recording and indicating instruments, telemetry systems, applications). - UNIT 6
Electron microscopy (principles of operation and types of EM systems, stoichiometric X-ray analysis)
Principles of spectroscopy (spectral regions and methods of optical and magnetic spectroscopy).
Radioactivity and dosimetry (elements of nuclear physics, radioactive decay and radiation, measurement of radioactivity, biological effects and results, applications in food technology),
Laboratory Part
- General introduction to the Physics laboratory
- Update on the operation of the Physics Laboratory and how to write technical reports (project sheets), introduction to measurements, experimental data processing, calculation and error estimation, significant figures and graphical representations.
- Theoretical exercise (data processing and results of theoretical measurements).
Series of experimental / laboratory exercises on:
- Measurement of lengths and radii of curvature of surfaces
- Determination of density of solids and liquids with the hydrostatic balance
- Viscosity measurement using a capillary tube
- Measurement of the acceleration of gravity with the simple pendulum
- Measurement of the coefficient of internal friction in fluids
- Supply in Real Liquids: Confirmation of Poisseuille’s Law
- Calorimetry: Determining the relationship between Joule and cal units
- Thin lenses – Optical instruments
- Polarization of light: Malus’s law and rotatability of materials (sugar).
- Spectroscope
- Determination of rotary pump pumping speed, creation and measurement of vacuum
- Electrical resistance – Circuit analysis
RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Suggested Bibliography:
- Πανεπιστημιακή φυσική με σύγχρονη φυσική, Young H., Freedman R. Α ΤΟΜΟΣ, 2009, Εκδόσεις Παπαζήση, ISBN 978-960-02-2338-5
- Ειδικά Κεφάλαια Φυσικής, Καρακώστας, Κομνηνού, 1998, Εκδόσεις Ζήτη, ISBN 960-431-492-0
- ΦΥΣΙΚΗ, Τριανταφύλλου Γ. Αθανάσιος, 2001, Εκδόσεις ΘΑΛΗΣ, ISBN 978-960-90103-2-0
- Η Φυσική στη Βιολογία και την Ιατρική, PAUL DAVIDOVITS, 2013, Εκδόσεις Παρισιάνου Α.Ε., ISBN : 978-960-394-830-8
- Βασικές Αρχές Μηχανικής Τροφίμων, Ζόγκζας Νικόλαος, 2017, Εκδόσεις Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε, ISBN: 978-960-418-711-9
- ΦΥΣΙΚΗ Ι, Κωνσταντινίδης Σ., Ντρίβας Ν., Πρελορέντζος Λ., 2007, Πανεπιστημιακές εκδόσεις ΑΡΑΘΥΜΟΣ, ISBN 978-960-89768-0-1
- A. Serway, J.W. Jewett “Φυσική για επιστήμονες και μηχανικούς”, τόμος I, 2012, Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος, ISBN : 978-960-461-508-7
Suggested general bibliography
- Halliday David, Resnick Robert, Walker Jearl, Papanikolas K., Physics, 2014, 1st ed., Gutenberg Publications, ISBN 978-960-01-1651-9
- Resnick and D. Halliday: Physics, vol 1, 4th Ed., 1993
- Schaum’s Outline of Fluid Mechanics (Schaum’s Outline Series) 1st Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0071487818 D.J. Tritton: Physical Fluid Dynamics
Online Physics resources and free e-books