SylabUZ
Course name | Groundbreaking experiments in physics |
Course ID | 13.2-WF-FizD-GEP-S19 |
Faculty | Faculty of Physics and Astronomy |
Field of study | Physics |
Education profile | academic |
Level of studies | Second-cycle studies leading to MS degree |
Beginning semester | winter term 2023/2024 |
Semester | 3 |
ECTS credits to win | 2 |
Course type | obligatory |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Lecture | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
Familiarize students with the development of concepts and methods related to the scientific research on examples of the most groundbreaking discoveries in experimental physics. In addition, the student strengthens his current knowledge and combines facts and phenomena from various branches of physics.
Student should attend the courses of the first-cycle studies in physics.
- Eratosthenes measurement (297 B.C.) – determining the Earth's circumference
- Archimedes' principle (III w. B.C.) – the buoyant force in a fluid
- Galileo's Experiments (1600) – free-falling and rolling bodies down inclined planes
- Sir Isaak Newton (1665), Sir William Herschel (1800) – experiments on passing light through a prism
- Thomas Young (1801), Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer (1927) – the double-slit experiment with coherent light and diffraction of electrons by a crystal of nickel
- Michael Faraday (1831) – the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction
- Leon Foucault’s pendulum (1851) – experimental confirmation of the Earth's rotation
- Albert Michelson and Edward Morleya (1881) – empirical (not) confirmation of the ether theory
- Ernest Rutherford measurement (rok 1911) – discovery of the atomic nucleus
- Arthur Eddington’s measurement (1919) – gravitational deflection of light
- Otto Stern, Walther Gerlach (1922) – the quantization of angular momentum
- Alain Aspect’s experiment (1981) – Do objective properties appear during the measurement?
- George Lemaître, Edwin Hubble, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess i inni (1929 – dzisiaj) – rozszerzający się Wszechświat
- ATLAS Collaboration+CMS Collaboration (2012) – confirmation of the Higgs boson
- And what next? Research, plans, speculation ...
Classes are in the form of lectures – illustrated with slides - when the student is encouraged to ask questions.
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
Students are assessed on the basis of essay writing. The teacher provides the list of topics a month before the end of classes.
[1] A. K. Wróblewski, Historia fizyki, PWN 2007
[2] Dzieje nauki. Nauki ścisłe i przyrodnicze, Wydawnictwa Szkolne PWN 2011
[3] Tom Jackson, Physics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science, Shelter Harbor Press 2017
[1] A. Drzewiński, J. Wojtkiewicz, Opowieści z historii fizyki, PWN 2001
[2] J. Przystawa, Odkryj smak fizyki, Wydawnictwa Szkolne PWN 2012
Modified by dr Marcin Kośmider (last modification: 20-06-2023 07:52)