Academic year/semester: 2025/26/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: Only for the faculty’s students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 2
Laboratory: 0
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: none

Course Leader: Dr. Lóránt Szabó

Faculty: Rejtő Sándor Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, 1034 Budapest, Doberdó utca 6.

Course Description:
The aim of the course is to provide engineering students with the physics fundamentals that are essential for the mastery of engineering and professional subjects.

Competences:
 Knowledge of the general and specific mathematical, scientific and social principles, rules and contexts necessary for the study of engineering.  Their multidisciplinary knowledge enables them to participate creatively in engineering work and to adapt to constantly changing requirements.  Open to professional cooperation with professionals in other fields related to their profession.  Strive to continuously improve their knowledge and keep their knowledge of the world up to date through self-education.

Topics:
1. Technical acoustics. Sound propagation. Three levels and phon
2. Thermodynamics. Absolute temperature scale. Thermal expansion of solids and liquids. Phase change. Heat and latent heat. State equation of ideal gases. Internal energy, work done by gas. First law of thermodynamics.
3. Special processes in the p-V plane.
4. Heat propagation. Second law of thermodynamics. Thermal Conduction.
5. Heat engines. Carnot cycle in p-V plane.
6. Electricity. Electric fields. Coulomb’s law. Motion of charged particles in a uniform electric field. Electric potential. Application of electrostatics
7. Capacitors. Combinations of capacitor.
8. Direct current (DC) circuits. Electric current and resistance. Kirchhoff’s laws (junction and loop rule). RC circuit.
9. Written test 1. Magnetism. Magnetic fields. Magnetic (Lorentz) force. Motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field. Magnetic force between two parallel conductors. Faraday’s law of induction.
10. Alternating Current (AC) circuits. AC circuit powers. Transformer.
11. Modern physics. Mass and energy. The photoelectric effect. Atomic physics. Size and density of the nuclei. Natural radioactivity. Atomic power station in Paks. Safety and waste disposal.
12. Atomic physics. Size and density of the nuclei. Binding energy. Nuclear fission. Natural radioactivity.
13. Atomic power station in Paks. Safety and waste disposal. Written test 2.
14. Summary of full semester. Replacement written test and solving the test.

Assessment: Tests: Written test 1: problems solving and questions (50 points) on the week 9. Written test 2: problems solving and questions (50 points) on the week 13. Replacement written test on the week 14.

Exam Types:

Oral Exam

Written Exam

Compulsory bibliography: Serway Jewett: Physics for Scientist and Engineers Lóránt Szabó: Physics for Undergraduate Students Lóránt Szabó: The World of Engineering Mechanics (electronic book)

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