Questions for State exams of Bachelor's degree program
Branch: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Subject: Classical Physics
Subjects regarding the questions:
- 02MECH Mechanics
- 02ELMA Electricity and Magnetism
- 02VOAF Waves, Optics and Atomic Physics
- 02TER Heat and Molecular Physics
- 02TSFA Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
1. Newton's laws of motion, Newton's law of gravitation, Galilean principle of relativity
2. Linear harmonic oscillator, mathematical pendulum
3. Conservation laws, impulse theorems, König's theorem
4. Kepler's problem
5. Postulates of Special Theory of Relativity, Lorentz transformations and their consequences, interval, Minkowski spacetime, relativistic energy and momentum
6. Integral and differential forms of Maxwell's equations in vacuum, Gauss's, Ampère's and Faraday's laws, vector and scalar potentials, Lorentz force
7. Coulomb's law, intensity of electric field, energy of a system of electric charges, electrostatic potential, Biot–Savart law
8. Multipole expansion, electric dipole, polarization vector, magnetic dipole, magnetization vector
9. Standing and traveling waves, wave energy and energy flux density on a string, wave equation, spherical and plane wave equations
10. Dispersion relation, wave packet and Fourier transform, group and phase velocity
11. Plane electromagnetic wave, energy density, Poynting vector, intensity
12. Polarization, interference, and diffraction
13. Blackbody radiation, Planck’s hypothesis, photoelectric effect, de Broglie’s hypothesis
14. Principles of thermodynamics, Maxwell relations and thermodynamic potentials, entropy
15. Most probable distribution, Maxwell's velocity distribution, equipartition theorem
16. Canonical and grand canonical ensembles, partition function and its significance