Engineering Physics 1 (5 cr)
Code: TE00BW81-3005
General information
- Enrollment
- 13.12.2022 - 11.01.2023
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 02.01.2023 - 24.03.2023
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Mechanical Engineering
Evaluation scale
H-5
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