Course Details
Physics of materials
Academic Year 2025/26
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
8 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Structure of materials: solids, crystalline solids, non-crystalline solids, amorphous solids, granular matter, quasi-crystals.
- 2. Soft matters, liquid crystals, polymers, complex fluids, gels, foams, emulsions.
- 3. Mechanical properties: stress / strain, deformation of solids, elasticity, plasticity, fluidity, viscosity.
- 4. Viscosity measurement, rheology, cohesive forces, surface tension and capillarity.
- 5. Thermal properties: heat capacity, specific heat, molar heat.
- 6. Thermal expansion, heat transfer, heat conduction, thermal conductivity.
- 7. Phonons, Debye theory, heat convection, radiation.
- 8. Temperature measurements: Seebeck effect, Peltier effect, Thomson effect, thermopower, thermocouples, thermistors.
- 9. Resistance temperature detectors (RTD), pyrometers, infrared thermometers, Langmuir probes, other thermometers.
- 10. Phase transition: phase, Gibbs' phase rule, phase diagram, solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter.
- 11. Latent heat, real gases, condensation, water vapour, moisture of materials, humidity.
- 12. Electrical properties of materials: electrical properties of gases, electrical properties of fluids (electrolytes), Faradays’ electrolytic laws.
- 13. Band theory of solids, electrical conductivity of solids.