Polovnikova L.B. 1
1 Tyumen state oil and gas University
The paper suggests a possibility of continuity realization of the discipline “Heat Technology” and the section of Physics “Laws of Thermodynamics” in the formation of general cultural and professional competencies for students of technical Universities. The continuity of the course of Physics and professionally oriented disciplines acts as an effective motivational factor to provoke meaningfulness of mastering of physical theories and purposefulness of students, cognitive activity. The reliability and validity of the propositions and conclusions are determined: by the depth of the methodological justification, by its co-ordination with the theory of cognition, by the analysis of voluminous material received in the process of theoretical and experimental research, by confirmation of the main points of the research in experimental work, as well as by approbation of the main research propositions in the practice of teaching at University.