Applications of laws and physical concepts in the career of Forest Engineering.

Abstract

The Mechanical and Molecular Physics subject is part of the Physical discipline of the first semester of the second year of the career Forest Engineering. With the target to make this subject attractive for the students, it was proceeded to establish major link of the contents of this subject with aspects that the future professional tackles during its career. With the experience of the authors and on the base of the difficulties of the students during the learning process, there was restructured the design of the subject as for the preparation of the conferences, practical classes and the programmes of partial and final evaluations. As result, after two years of application of this process, verified not only one high interest of the students in the subject but also, a major appropriation of the physical knowledge necessary for the future forest engineer, according to the requirements of the plan of study.