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Engineering Physics 1 (5 cr)

Code: TE00BW81-3004

General information


Enrollment

11.12.2021 - 21.01.2022

Timing

10.01.2022 - 22.03.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering

Teachers

  • Riku Mattila

Teacher in charge

Riku Mattila

Groups

  • MKONTS21

Objective

After completing the course the student:
- Understands the fundamentals ofnatural scienceas a base of technological applications.
- Understands the basic theories of the modern physical world in order for him/her to be able to apply this knowledge in his/her future field of expertise.

Content

Topics covered in course are (in the order shown):
• uniform motion
• uniform acceleration
• gravitational acceleration
• motion in two and three dimensions
• force and momentum
• law of momentum concervation
• force and acceleration
• action and reaction
• gravitational force
• normal forces
• frictional forces
• transmission of force by ropes and chains
• kinetic energy
• potential energy
• work-energy principle
• springs
• power
• power and drag forces in uniform motion
• power in uniformly accelerating motion
• impulse
• inelastic collisions
• rotational motion
• g-forces
• angular acceleration and centripetal force

Evaluation scale

H-5