Universität Wien

267000 SE Bachelor Seminar (2021S)

Historic physical devices and literature as a source of knowledge on physics

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 26 - Physik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 15 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

The bachelor seminar is held digitally by video conferences (BigBlueButton, Collaborate).

  • Thursday 11.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 18.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 25.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 15.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 22.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 29.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 06.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 20.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 27.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 10.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 17.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital
  • Thursday 24.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar aims for all participating students to become familiar with the subject area, methods and formal requirements of the bachelor thesis, e.g. historic physical devices and literature as a source of knowledge on physics compared with today. Basically there is a wide range of topics.

The aims of the seminar are conveyed by the following methods: short presentations of the course lecturer and the students, discussions of historic and modern experiments, photos and videos of the historical physics collection are available, support to work independently.
Due to the pandemic, the bachelor's seminar will be held digitally. The video tools BigBlueButton or Collaborate are used via the Moodle platform, depending on which tool works better in the time slot of the course.

Assessment and permitted materials

Participation at the video conferences, short presentations via video conference, written elaboration of tasks, bachelor thesis.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Participation at the video conferences is obligatory (absence may be excused in case of justifiable reasons), two short presentations, 50 % of the possible points are required. Positive bachelor thesis. Participation, the first and second presentations each make up 13.3% and the bachelor's thesis 60%. This means a weighting of the first three averaged criteria for the bachelor thesis in a ratio of 2: 3.

Examination topics

Presentations and discussions, individual bachelor thesis.

Reading list

Will be announced in the seminar.

Association in the course directory

UF PHYS 17

Last modified: Fr 12.05.2023 00:22