Department of Physics

Нead of the department
Litvynchuk Svitlana Ivanivna
Docent, Candidate of Technical scienses

(established in 1930)

The Department of physics Faculty of Biotechnology and Environmental Control of NUFT provides an educational process for the study of compulsory disciplines: "Physics", "Engineering Physics" and "Physics for food technologies" for bachelor degree students of four faculties and institutes of the University (Educational and Scientific Institute of Food Technology, Educational and Scientific Engineering and Technical Institute named after Academician I.S. Huliy, Faculty of Biotechnology and Environmental Control, and Faculty of Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Business) using the full-time and extramural (distance).

For applicants for the degree of "bachelor" of the Faculty of Automation and Computer Systems, the Department of Physics conducts training in elective subjects: «Physical basics of computer electronics» and «Physics». Also, the department at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Environmental Control teaches the elective course «Physical foundations of instrumental methods in biotechnology».

The elective course «Physical foundations of instrumental methods of non-destructive assessment of food quality» is offered for study to applicants for the educational degree «Bachelor» of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Food Technology.

And since 2021, the Department of Physics has also begun training in the elective discipline «Tribophysics: laws of friction» for applicants for the degree of «Doctor of Philosophy» specialty 133 «Industrial Engineering» educational and scientific program «Machines and apparatus of food, microbiological and pharmaceutical industries» full-time and part-time education.

Teachers of the Department of Physics at distance correspondence classes in the discipline "Physics" in the Poltava branch of NUHT.

The material and technical base of the Department of physics includes four training and one scientific laboratory.

All scientific and pedagogical staff of the Department of Physics conduct an active scientific work the results of which are published in the well-known Ukrainian and international journals, included in Scopus and Web of Science databases; they also take an active part in the international and national conferences and seminars.

A close cooperation of teachers from the Department of physics with the scientific and the pedagogical workers of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Dragomanov National Pedagogical University, Mykolaiv V.O. Sukhomlynskyi National University, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine and Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.

The Department of Physics actively cooperates with leading National academic research institutions: Institute of physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, L.E. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics NAS of Ukraine National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Institute of Agriculture of Polesie NAAS of Ukraine.

Since 2017, the Department of Physics has already concluded eight official agreements on the operation of institutions with many of these free and scientific organizations.

The lecturers of the Department of physics accomplish both the theoretical and the applied research in various directions in cooperation with other departments of NUFT, namely:

• technologies of baking and confectionery products,
• milk and dairy products technology,
• meat and meat products technology,
• technology of fats and perfume and cosmetic products,
• biotechnology products of fermentation and winemaking,
• conservation technology,
• technologies for storage and processing of grain,
• food chemistry,
• expert examination of food products,
• technologies of restaurant and ayurvedic products,
• hotel and restaurant business.

On May 26-27, 2020, the Department of Physics together with the Department of Higher Mathematics named after Professor Mozhar V.I. initiated and held the All-Ukrainian scientific-methodical Internet conference "Actual scientific-methodical problems of physics and mathematics in higher education institutions", dedicated to the 90th anniversary of our departments.

Also, on November 26, 2019, the Department of Physics organized a scientific and practical seminar with international participation "Improvement of physical methods of food quality control", dedicated to the 135th anniversary of our university. Specialists from Bruker Bio Spin GmbH (Germany) in the agro-industrial complex: Dr. Marcus Link (Key Account Manager), Lea Heinz (Product Manager Food Screener) and Thomas Spengler (Market Manager) were invited to the event. They presented the latest technologies for the detection of food counterfeits, including honey, by nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR). The event, held by the Department of Physics, aroused considerable interest from honey exporters.

The lecturers of our department are the authors of modern textbooks, collections of problems, courses and lecture notes manuals, on physics:

1. Physics for food technology (content module 1. Physical foundations of mechanics, molecular physics and thermodynamics) [Electronic resource]: a textbook for applicants for the degree of "bachelor" specialty 181 "Food Technology" for the stationary and the correspondence study / S. I. Litvynchuk, V. E. Nosenko, H. I. Shatkovska, I. V. Hutsalo, V. V. Vyshchshniak. – К.: NUFT, 2021. – 245 p.
2. Collection of problems from the course of general physics [Electronic resource]: a textbook for applicants for the degree of "bachelor" of technical specialties for the stationary and the correspondence (distance) study / B. I. Verbytskyi, S. I. Litvynchuk, N. V. Medvid. – К.:NUFT, 2020. – 577 р.
3. Physics [Electronic resource]: a course of lectures for applicants for the educational degree "Bachelor" specialty 162, 101 educational and professional program "Biotechnology: pharmaceutical, industrial, food, environmental", "Ecology and eco-management" for the stationary and the correspondence study. / M. V. Lazarenko, S. I. Litvynchuk. – К.:NUFT, 2020. – 328 р.
4. Engineering physics. Module 1 [Electronic resource]: a course of lectures for students of the educational degree "Bachelor" special. 151 "Automation and computer-integrated technologies" educational-professional program "Computer systems and software engineering in automation" for the stationary and the correspondence study. / S. I. Litvynchuk, N. V. Medvid. – К.:NUFT, 2020. – 193 р.
5. Physics: comprehensive preparation for external evaluation for students of the Preparatory Department of the Center for Quality Monitoring and Coordination of Educational Activities of the University [Electronic resource]: textbook. / S. I. Litvynchuk, M. V. Lazarenko, N. V. Medvid and other.– К.:NUFT, 2019. – 49 р.
6. Physics. Electrostatics [Electronic resource]: textbook / V. N. Isai, S. I. Litvynchuk.– К.:NUFT, 2018.
7. Physics. Dynamics of rotational movement [Electronic resource]: textbook / V. N. Isai, S. I. Litvynchuk.– К.:NUFT, 2017.
8. Physics: Textbook for the practical solving of the physical problems/ B. I. Verbytskyi, A. M. Korol, S. M. Kotikova, N. V. Medvid. - Kyiv: NUFT, 2017. - 331 p.
9. Physics: textbook / М. V. Andriiashyk, A. M. Korol. .– К.:NUFT, 2017. – 302 р.
10. Physics: Manual for solving of the problems of the course of general physics / B. I. Verbytskyi, A. M. Korol, S. M. Kotikova, N. V. Medvid. - K.: Inkos, 2016. – 376 p.

Also annually, the department updates and publishes guidelines for the study of disciplines "Physics", "Engineering Physics" and "Physics for Food Technology".

Since 2015, the department has begun work on the creation of electronic training courses for distance learning, which are constantly updated with new educational materials, presentations and videos of laboratory works.

Recently, the Department of Physics has been holding the annual All-Ukrainian Olympiad of NUHT in Physics, where its winners are given the opportunity to increase the rating competition score when entering the university.

As part of the «Open Days», «Hospitality Days», the department holds master classes for high school students, such as «Physics around us», «Oscillating processes around us», «Wave processes around us», «Optics around us», etc. Teachers of the department also conduct physical training for future entrants and in 2019 to help students issued a textbook: «Physics: comprehensive preparation for external evaluation for students of the Preparatory Department of the Center for Quality Monitoring and Coordination of Educational Activities of the University».

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The department of Physics provides the general engineering training of specialists for the «bachelor» degree:

The Department of Physics also provides training for applicants for the degree of «Doctor of Philosophy» in the elective discipline «Tribophysics: the laws of friction»:

Preparation of academic disciplines taught by the Department of Physics for undergraduate students:

1. «Physics»;
2. «Engineering Physics»;
3. «Physics for food technology».

Elective academic disciplines taught by the Department of Physics for applicants for the degree of «bachelor»:

1. «Physical foundations of computer electronics»,
2. «Physical bases of instrumental methods in biotechnologies»,
3. «Physical bases of instrumental methods of non-destructive assessment of food quality».

Elective academic disciplines offered by the Department of Physics for applicants for the degree of «Doctor of Philosophy»:

1. «Tribophysics: laws of friction»,
2. «Physical research methods».

The Department of Physics conducts scientific work within the departmental state budget topic: «The use of physical methods to intensify technological processes and analysis of food products» (state registration number: 0119U103162).

The results of research obtained by scientific departments in the field of solid-state physics, thermophysics, spectroscopy, which are actively implemented in the educational process.

Scientific achievements of the department are permanently published in the leading scientific journals which are refereed by Sсopus, Index Copernicus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, EBSCO, UlrichsWeb, Global Impact Factor, CABI full text, Online Library of University of Southern Denmark, Directory of Research Journals Indexing, Universal Impact Factor, Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources (ROAD), European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), InfoBase Index, Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index (CASSI).

Teachers take an active part in foreign, international, national conferences and seminars. The results of research obtained by scientists of the department in the field of solid-state physics, thermophysics, spectroscopy, are actively implemented in the educational process.

Patent and licensing work are actively conducted the results of which are confirmed by 28 author's certificates, patents of Ukraine for inventions and utility models.

The teachers of the department constantly replenish the NUHT repository with their scientific publications.

In order to attract the active students of junior courses to participate in the research work a scientific group “Physics in modern food technologies” operates at the department,  the scientific leaders of which are  the Docent Volodymyr Nosenko, the Docent SvitlanaLitvynchuk and the senior lecturer  Volodymyr Vyshnyak.

During the years of the department's existence, its employees experienced the heroic and long-suffering periods of life of the people of Ukraine.

Many of them fought on the fronts of the Second World War: Head of dep. Dadenkova MM, Docent Velykodnyi P.L., Head  of the Laboratory Arkhanhelskyi S.V. and senior laboratory assistant Dvoskin Z.P.

The department permanently fulfills a lot of work for educating the scientific and pedagogical staff.

The teaching staff is replenished, in particular, owing to the graduate school. Ph. D. and doctor of sciences degrees were obtained on the base of topics developed at the department (Velykodnyi P. L., Burdukova R. S., Zhmyrya L. P., Bunke E. K., Kazanskyi V. M., Tarapon V. S., Taranov I. T., Sidniev P. P., Cherednik M. A., Verbytskyi B. I., Lutsyk Y. P., Litvynchuk S. I.) and doctor thesis (Pavlov I. S.,  Duschenko V. P., Buliandra A. F., Volovyk, Marchenko V. I., Romanovskyi I.Y., Korol A. M.).

The following educators of the department of physics take an active part in the education-pedagogical work in the University: senior lecturer Kotikova S. M. (Head of the Center of the preliminary-high school education), Docent Bagluk S. V. ( Vice-rector deputy for the work with students), Docent Nosenko V.E (Dean deputy for educational work of the Faculty of Technology of Fermentation and Bakery Production / Department Bakery and Confectionary), Docent Medvid N. V. (Vice-Head of the Center of the preliminary-high school education).

Significant contribution to the methodological and technical work of the department have been made by the heads of the laboratory Arkhanhelskyi S.V, Podvyaznikov A.V., Hordiyenko O.M., Bylinskyi V.O., Medvid V.V., engineer Dolinska I.A. and senior laboratory assistant Dvoskin Z.P.