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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Practical Exercises of Physics III and IV

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 480-2090/02
Abbreviation LCFIII
Course title Practical Exercises of Physics III and IV
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator Mgr. Radim Uhlář, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Refractive index, refractometry, dispersion of light
2. Reflection on a plane surface (Fresnel equations)
3. The optical parameters of imaging systems (lenses, microscope)
4. The optics of anisotropic media (polarization)
5. The study of light diffraction on the grid, slit, doubleslit, wire, edge, circular aperture
6. Measurements on the Michelson interferometer
7. Balmer series and measuring the wavelength of the accelerated electrons by means of diffraction on a polycrystal
8. Measuring the Planck's constant on the basis of photoelectric effect
9. Franck - Hertz experiment with mercury and neon,
10. Study of properties of solids using X-rays

E-learning

No

Literature

KIRKUP L., FRENKEL R. B.: An Introduction to Uncertainty in Measurement, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN-13:9780521605793  | ISBN-10:0521605792  or
KIRKUP L.: Data Analysis with Excel®, Cambridge University Press, 2002, ISBN-13:9780521797375  | ISBN-10:0521797373 .

Advised literature

BEISER A.: Perspectives of Modern Physics, McGraw-Hill, New York 1969;
SALEH, B. E. A., TEICH, M. C., Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1991;
JENKINS, F. A., WHITE, H. E., Fundamentals of optics, 4th ed. McGraw-Hill,
1981.