Course contents: Mechanics: velocity and acceleration, Newton’s laws, work, energy, power, conservation of energy, trajectories, circular motion, momentum, angular momentum, conservation of momentum, torque, oscillations, universal gravitation.Waves: wave equation, harmonic waves, acoustic waves, nature and propagation of light, Compton effect, geometrical optics, reflection, refraction, mirrors, thin lenses.Modern physics: special theory of relativity, speed of light, time dilation, length contraction, structure of matter, structure of atomic nucleus, radioactivity, elementary particles, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, Schrödinger’s equation.

Assessment: Written exams at the end of the semester.