Lehrinhalte
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[*]Introduction (physical quantities, measurements)
[*]Electromagnetic fields and waves (fields, matter in fields, time-dependent fields, em radiation)
[*]Optics (light, images, wave optics)
[*]Quantum physics (matter and light quanta, quantum optics, particle-wave duality, nuclear physics)
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Literature
The main reference for the class is

E. Hering, R. Martin, M. Stohrer, 
[b]Physik für Ingenieure 
Springer-Verlag, Berlin und Heidelberg, 12th edition [/b]

Among many other textbooks covering fundamental physics, the are ample examples in English.  We will give references to the German translations of the following books that are also available in the English original:
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[*]Giancoli: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Prentice-Hall)
[*]Halliday, Resnick, Walker: Fundamentals for Physics (Wiley)
[*]Tipler, Mosca: Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Freeman)
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Voraussetzungen
Competences acquired during the first year of studies.
Course material as well as lectures and tutorial sessions will be in German.
 

Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl
about 400
 

Further Grading Information
For a successful participation, a wrap-up of the lectures using additional literature and an active participation in the tutorials is suggested. Additional material is provided via the e-learning platform Moodle.

The courses of the winter term 2022/23 will be (as planned now) face-to-face. For in-class quizzes and problems, we will use the on-line voting system [b]PINGO [/b]([url=https://pingo.upb.de/]link to PINGO homepage here[/url]).

[i]Exam[/i]

Passing the written two-hour exam is required for passing the course.  Currently, the Texam date is known.

[i]Grade-point bonus[/i]

Successful submission of [i]preparatory[/i] homework problems qualify for a bonus up to 0.4 grade points.  Homework and submission of questions does not replace passing the written exam.

Official Course Description
[url=https://www.maschinenbau.tu-darmstadt.de/studieren/downloads/index.de.jsp]cf. course description (web page of the mech. engineering department)[/url]

Zusätzliche Informationen
Weekly problem tutorials are offered.  Homework has to be submitted via the moodle course (details in the tutorials).  The home works will uploaded on the moodle page. Homework falls in two categories: home problems repeating last week's contents.  Remaining problems will be discussed in the weekly tutorial sessions.  Problems (and later also solutions) will be published in moodle.

Online-Angebote
moodle

Semester: Inverno 2023/24