Course Details
Applied Physics
Academic Year 2024/25
CB001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
3 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Types of pores, porosity, absolute and relative humidity, physisorption and chemisorption.
2. Sorption isotherms after : (a) Harkins and Jury, (b) Langmuir, (c) Brunauer, Emmet and Teller (BET).
3. Three-phase system, potential of porous water, retention line of moisture.
4. Measuring methods, hysteresis of retention line, analysis of retention line.
5. Foundations of non-linear thermodynamics.
6. Phenomenological transport equations, Fourier equations of heat conduction.
7. Non-linear temperature profiles in building constructions.
8. Fick diffusion equations and their solutions.
9. Isothermal and non-isothermal diffusion.
10. Non-linear pressure profiles of water vapour in structures.
11. Thermal diffusion (Soret effect), transport of moisture in the three moisture regions: under-hygroscopic, hygroscipic and over-hygroscopic.
12. Classical Generalised Glaser’s condensation model.
13 Acoustics of inner spaces.
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Topics and content of laboratory exercises:
1. Determination of heat capacity of solids by means of calorimeter (measurement)
2. Determination of coefficient of heat expansion of solids (measurement)
3. Determination of heat conduction of brick by means of non-stationary method (measurement)
4. Determination of adiabatic Poisson’s constant of air (measurement)
5. Determination of heat factor of heat pump (measurement)
6. Determination of frequency dependence of sound absorptivity (measurement)
7. Frequency analysis of sound (measurement)
8. Reverberation time in a room (measurement)
9. Determination of roughness of fracture surfaces by means of the confocal microscope
Throughout the semester students solve a set of numerical problems and continuously provide their results to teachers to check the results.