У статті обґрунтовано й запропоновано як одну з форм самостійної роботи студентів фізичних спеціальностей закладів вищої освіти ведення словника фізичних понять (термінів), який може стати, як показує досвід, важливою складовою навчального процесу. Доведено, що ведення подібного словника може бути корисним і для студентів, які вивчають будь-яку дисципліну з певними застереженнями в методичних порадах щодо ведення словника.

One of the important problems of the methodology of teaching any discipline is the effective identification of the objective level of students’ knowledge, acquired skills and abilities in the study of a discipline. Traditional methods of testing and assessing knowledge contain some drawbacks: excessive time spent on the exam; elements of teacher’s subjectivity that may occur; inability to clarify clear criteria for assessing knowledge, etc. Based on this, and the prospects for the reform of higher education in Ukraine, such methods of knowledge control are needed, which would allow teachers not only to establish an objective level of students’ knowledge, but also to identify (diagnose) the causes of gaps in student learning so that they could on its basis help the student to overcome the identified gaps. This method, devoid of most of the above shortcomings, is computer testing, the use of which for a long time as a means of monitoring and evaluating students’ achievements in studying the course of General Physics and Profession-oriented English at the Department of Materials Science and New Technologies (State higher educational institution "Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University"), at the Department of Physics and the Department of Western and Oriental Languages and their Teaching Methods (The State Institution“ South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky”) has shown that the use of computer testing in the study of Physics and foreign languages in the professional field should be subject to certain reservations, since this method has some advantages alongside disadvantages that can distort the results of monitoring and evaluation of students’ achievements. Based on the analysis of the authors' experience as well as the analysis of pedagogical, psychological and scientific-methodological literature devoted to this problem, an attempt is made to establish the conditions and limits of computer testing in the organization of the learning platform (courses) in the fields of General Physics and foreign languages for the students majoring in Physics at institutes of higher education. The article states that computer testing, on condition that tests meet the quality requirements, should be used only for the current (thematic) control of knowledge during each semester. This method is at the same time an express control method aimed at testing students' knowledge in the process of studying General Physics and foreign languages; it is also a “sensitive” diagnostic method which allows you to identify shortcomings of a student in time in the process of learning, giving the teacher the opportunity to timely influence its course. The learning progress control (testing in theoretical modules) can be carried out by means of computer testing but with the use of certain additional precautionary methodological measures. It is more expedient to carry out the final control in the form of a quality written-oral examination.

In this work, the morphological and electrical properties of the composite nanoporous carbon material/thermally expanded graphite or acetylene black have been investigated. Nanoporous carbon material was obtained from plant materials by its thermochemical activation based on potassium hydroxide. The dependence of the specific capacity of the nanoporous carbon/electrolyte electrochemical system on the applied potential was determined by the impedance spectroscopy method. Furthermore, the concentration of charge transfer and the density of states, as well as the flat-band potential of the system under research, were determined based on the Mott-Schottky model.

The paper reveals the results of electrochemical studies of activated nanoporous carbon material (NPC) as an electrode material for electrochemical capacitors (EC), the charge of which is accumulated in an electrical double layer (EDL). NPC material has been obtained from raw material of plant origin (hemp shives) by thermochemical activation using phosphoric acid. It has been established that there is an optimal ratio between the amount of acid and precursor based on plant biomass that is equal to 0.75:1. The specific surface area of ​​the obtained NPCwas ~ 2000 m2/g, and the maximum specific capacitance of EC models based on them was ~ 113 F/g. At the same time, the contribution of the EDL capacitance to the total capacitance is 60-80 %.

At the moment, the creation of methodological support for academic disciplines is an urgent problem of organizing the educational process in higher education institutions. As you know, the methodological support for the study of an academic discipline consists of four independent methodological documents: the program of the academic discipline, the working program of the academic discipline, the syllabus and the electronic educational and methodological complex of the discipline. The purpose of the study is a comparative analysis of these documents to determine their role in the organization of the educational process. The program of the academic discipline is the main normative document that determines the place and significance of the discipline in the implementation of the educational and professional training of the student, its content, the amount of knowledge, skills and abilities determined by the relevant competencies, as well as the sequence and organizational forms of studying the academic discipline. It is developed by one of the highly educated teachers of the department, discussed at a meeting of the department and approved by it, after which it becomes a working methodological document of the department. Based on a comparative analysis of the structure and content of the program, work program, syllabus and educational-methodological complex of the discipline, which are the main components of educational and methodological support for the study of the discipline, it has been established that all components of the work program in one form or another are repeated in the syllabus and educational-methodological complex discipline. At the same time, in contrast to the work program of the discipline, in the last two methodological components, these components have a large semantic content that is necessary in the educational work of students. In addition, the information contained in the syllabus and the educational-methodical complex of the discipline, the student can use at any time, since these documents are contained in electronic form on the websites of libraries of higher educational institutions and departments, which own the discipline, and the work program of the discipline is stored in paper form at the department and students' access to it is limited. The conducted comparative analysis leads to the conclusion that the work program of the academic discipline is not a necessary link in the methodological support of the discipline study.