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Theoretical Mechanics
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:6.00
Study Course Accepted:08.03.2024 08:29:34
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | FK_022 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Mechanics; Biomechanics | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andris Mikulis | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Physics | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, 1st floor, Rooms No 147 a and b, fizika rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061539 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge in mathematics and physics. Knowledge of the national language. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Students will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for the acquisition of other study disciplines, as well as in the education of an orthopedic specialist. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Basics of kinematics. Motion characteristics: trajectory speed and acceleration. Uniform motion. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Accelerated motion. Vertical and angled body movement. Kinematics of rotational motion. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Angular velocity and angular acceleration. Centrifugal and tangential acceleration. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Basic concepts of dynamics. Mass and strength. Friction force. Forces of inertia. Newton's laws. Amount of movement (pulse). Law of conservation of momentum (momentum). | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Work and mechanical energy. Energy Conservation Law. Rotation of a solid body. Dynamics of solid body rotation. Moments of inertia. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Impulse moment. Basic equation of rotational motion dynamics. Law of conservation of momentum. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Mechanical oscillations. Mechanical waves, their characteristics. Mechanical properties of solids and biological tissues. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During practical classes – solving tasks. Outside the classes, students develop a research paper on the basic concepts of theoretical mechanics and their application in the structure of the human body. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Students' participation in classes is evaluated. At the end of the study course, the type of examination is an oral theoretical test. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | As a result of the course students will: 1. Acquire and strengthen knowledge in theoretical mechanics. 2. Understand the regularities of absolutely solid body dynamics. 3. Understand free, sluggish and forced oscillations, wave processes. 4. Understand the mechanisms of elastic body deformation. | ||||||||
| Skills: | 1. Will be oriented in terms of theoretical mechanics. 2. The acquired knowledge will be used in the calculation of mechanical properties of solids and biological tissues. 3. Physical concepts and regularities will be used in the calculation of kinematics problems of rotational motion of human body members. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | As a result of the study course students will be able to evaluate the significance of the laws of theoretical mechanics in the statics and dynamics of human body movement. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Grabovskis R. Fizika. Rīga, Zvaigzne, 1983, 645 lpp. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | P. Davidovits. Physics in Biology and Medicine. Academic press, 2019. | ||||||||
