| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Undergraduate Studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | The History of Physics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | associate professor Ilija Maric | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 3 | Status (required/elective) | optional | |||||||
| Access requirements | ||||||||||
| Aims of the course | Introduction to the history of physics from its classical origins up until today through the history of concepts | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Getting acquainted with the historical development of certain fundamental concepts of physics | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | 1. Different conceptions of the history of physics. 2. The history of physics as the history of concepts. 3. The history of the concept of physics. 4. The history of the concept of space. 5. The history of the concept of time. 6 The history of the concept of mass. 7. The history of the concept of force. 8. The history of the concept of energy. 9. The history of the concept of heat. 10. The history of the concept of field. 11. The history of the concepts of void, vacuum, and aether. 12. The history of the concept of atom. 13. The history of the concept of the elementary particle. 14. The history of the concept of the law of conservation. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | ||||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | J. D. Buchwald, R. Fox, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics, OUP, Oxford, 2014. | |||||||||
| 2 | М. Млађеновић, Развој физике, 1-5, Београд, 1983-1989. | |||||||||
| 3 | M. Jammer, Concepts of Space, Dover, New York, 1993. | |||||||||
| 4 | M. Jammer, Concepts of Mass in Classical and Modern Physics, Dover, New York, 1997. | |||||||||
| 5 | M. Jammer, Concpets of Force, Dover, New York, 1999. 6. M. Hesse, Forces and Fields, Dover, New York, 2005. 7. И. Марић, Историја физике као историја појмова (скрипта) | |||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures and writing term papers | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 10 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | oral examination | 70 | ||||||||
| papers | 20 | |||||||||
| presentations | ||||||||||