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Methods of Scientific Work

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 060-0924/05
Abbreviation MVP
Course title Methods of Scientific Work
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Karla Barčová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Methods of scientific research in basic and applied research.
Determination of the current level of knowledge in the scientific field of the student's dissertation, conducting a search in international databases and finding the "scientific gap" corresponding to the topic of the dissertation.
Work with scientific databases, publication ethics, research funding, intellectual property and industrial-legal protection of inventions, commercialization of intellectual property.
Statistical data processing.
Helmholtz theory of measurement. Measuring methods and procedures. Measurement errors and uncertainties, logical construction of the experiment.
Application of statistical methods. Explanation of theoretical principles of basic diffraction and imaging experimental methods used in the study of materials, as well as for advanced physical methods of imaging and chemical microanalysis, optical microscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray and electron diffraction, electron probe microanalysis, chromatography, electrophoresis, infrared spectrometry, thermal analysis.

Literature

DUNLAP, R.A.:Experimental Physics: Modern Methods, Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN-10: 0195049497 .
RAGHAVENDRA, N.V.; KRISHNAMURTHY, L: Engineering Metrology and Measurements, Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
Gauch, Hugh G. Jr. (2003), Scientific Method in Practice, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-01708-4 .

Advised literature

BISH, D.L., POST, J.E., EDS. Modern Powder Diffraction, Reviews in Mineralogy,
Volume 20, 1989
KIMOTHI, S.K: The Uncertainty of Measurements: Physical and Chemical Metrology and Analysis, ASQ Quality Press, 2002.
WATT, I., M.: The Principles and Practice of Electron Microscopy. Cambridge University Press; 1997