Physical Principles in ICT

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	480-2470/02
Abbreviation	FPICT
Course title	Physical Principles in ICT
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Physics
Course coordinator	prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Oscillation, harmonic oscillator, dumped scillations, forced oscillations, superposition of scillation.
2. Wave, wave equation, propagating harmonic waves, wave-transmitted energy.
3. Wave interference, standing waves, Doppler phenomena.
4. Electromagnetic waves, polarization, reflection and refraction, total reflection.
5. Interference and light, diffraction, coherence, Young's experiment, thin layer interference.
6. Limits of classical physics, photoelectric effect, Compton shift, wave-particle dualism, wave function.
7. Hydrogen atom, atoms with multiple electrons. Spontaneous and stimulated emission, lasers.
8. Band theory of solids.

E-learning

Study materials are available to students of the course in the LMS.

Literature

B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, J. Wiley, New York, 1991;
D. Halliday, R. Resnick, J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, J. Wiley 2013, 10th Edition.

Advised literature

R. A. Serway, J. W. Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, 7 th Edition, Saunders College Publishing, 2008.

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