Individual course details
Study programme General physic
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Basic academic studies
Name of the course General physic 1
Professor (lectures) Zorica Popović
Professor/associate (examples/practical)  
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 9 Status (required/elective) obligatory
Access requirements none
Aims of the course To introduce students with basic characteristics of motion. To make connection of given quontities with the cause of motion. To get familiar with the experiments that led to these cognitions. Consider the possibilities of applying the laws of mechanics in meteorology and astrophysics. To get know the physical quantities that describe the movement of celestial bodies, clouds, rain drops...
Learning outcomes Acquiring an overview of physical quantities  that characterize the motion of material points, rigid bodies, physical systems.
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Physical basic of mechanics. Reference systems. Physical quantities. Units. Kinematics of the material point. Determination of the path of the material point. Velocity of the material point. Acceleration of the material point. 2. Kinematics of a rigid body. Translational motion of a rigid bodie. Rotational motion of a rigid body. Angular velocity. Angular acceleration. 3. Dynamics of the material point. Force. Mass. Free and forced movement of the body. 4. Straight-line motion of the material point. Curved motion of the material point. Frictional forces. Classification of mechanical connections. 5. The dynamics of the material point relative motion. Galilean principle of relativity. 6. Inertial frames of references. Noninertial frames of references. 7. Conservation lows in nature. Work. Force. Wok force. Conservative and nonconservative forces. Energy. Conservation of momentum. 8. Basics of dynamics of a mechanical system. Center of mass and its motion.Dynamics of rigid bodies. 9. Gravitation. Basic laws of celestial mechanics. Newton's low of gravitation. Generalization of gravity low. 10. Gravitational constant and determination of the mass of the Sun and the planets. Gravitational and inert mass. 11. Gravitational field. The work done by the gravitational force. Gravitational potential energy. Potential curves and body balance conditions. 12. Body motions in the gravitational field of the Earth. First and second cosmic speed. The role of gravity in nature. Limits of the validity of classical mechanics. 13. Introduction to the mechanics of continuous environments. Hooke's low. Elastic deformation energy. 14. Fluid mechanics. Fluid statics or hydroaerostatics. Dynamics of ideal fluid. Viscosity fluid dynamics. 15. Mechanical oscillations. 
Examples/ practical classes Lectures are followed by problem solving classes.  
Recommended books
1 B. Žižić, Kurs opšte fizike,fizička mehanika Naučna kniga, Beograd (1983)
2 V. Vučić, D. Ivanović, Fizika, Naučna knjiga, Beograd (1968)
3 I.E.Irodov, Zadaci iz opšte fizike, Zavod za uđzbenike i nastavna sredstava, Podgorica (2000)
4 Young & Freedman, University Physics vol. 1, 11th ed., Pearson Addison Wesley (2004)
5 R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman lectures on Physics, vol. 1, Addison Wesley Publishing Company (1966)
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
4 3      
Teaching and learning methods  
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 20 written examination 30
practicals   oral examination 50
papers      
presentations