Courses

Special Topics on Physics

General

Course Contents

Fluid Mechanics, Pascal Principle, Archimedes Principle
Flow laws, Real fluids, Viscosity
Exercises in Fluid Mechanics
Heat, temperature.
Thermometers, the ideal gas temperature scale.
Reversible and irreversible process.
Ideal gasses, equation of state, thermal motion of molecules, the Maxwell distribution.
The Van der Waals gas.
The first law of thermodynamics, work, heat, heat capacity calorimetry.
Processes of an ideal gas.
Second law of thermodynamics. Heat engines, Carnot cycle.
Entropy.
Electric charge, Coulomb’s law.
Electric field, Gauss’s theorem.
Electric potential
Planck’s theory of blackbody radiation. Energy quantization. Photons. Photoelectric effect. Compton effect. Pair production.
X-rays production and diffraction.
Bragg scattering. Moseley’s law. Auger electrons. Absorption coefficient.
The solid state structure. Experimental methods for the study of crystalline structure using X-rays.
Molecular bonds. Molecular spectra.

Educational Goals

Students will be able to understand in depth the principles and laws of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics and electromagnetism. They will have initially established the necessary mathematical formalism to describe the above laws. They will be able to describe the state of a fluid and interpret the basic laws. They will be able to construct motion equations for simple simplified models. They will be able to solve problems on these models. They are introduced to the content of the terms of thermodynamics through the treatment of the laws of ideal gas and heat engines, they become familiar with the basic concepts of classical thermodynamics, they extend its method to areas of physics other than gas, they are introduced to the equilibrium problems initial experience of modelling in the analysis of physical problems. They also come in contact with a first approach to the phenomena of the microcosm, the description of phenomena and experiments on light, electrons, atoms and crystals and finally with terms and concepts of Quantum Physics and Crystal Structure, the theories-foundation for the description of the phenomena of the microcosm.

General Skills

Literature review, Critical review of bibliography, Adaptation to new situations, Autonomous work, Teamwork – distribution and delegation of responsibilities, Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking, Adherence to good practice guidelines.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, Exercises, Online guidance, Projected Presentations, E-mail communication, Online Synchronous and Asynchronous Teaching Platform (moodle).

Students Evaluation

Assessment Language: English / Greek
The final grade of the course is formed by 100% by the grade of the written final examination.
The written final examination of the theoretical part may include: Solving problems of application of the acquired knowledge, Short answer questions etc.

Recommended Bibliography

Fluid Mechanics, Robert A. Granger (Dover).
Concepts of Modern Physics,Arthur Beiser, McGraw-Hill Education.
Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics. Serway, R.A. and Jewett, J.W. (2014) 9th Edition, Cengage Learning, Boston.
Heat and Thermodynamics 7th Revised edition by Mark W. Zemansky; Richard H. Dittman, THE McGRAW-HILL COMPANIES, INC.