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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Waves, Optics and Atomic Physics

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02VOAF Z,ZK 6 4+2 Czech
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In order to register for the course 02VOAF, the student must have successfully completed or received credit for and not exhausted all examination dates for the course 02MECHZ. The course 02VOAF can be graded only after the course 02MECHZ has been successfully completed.
Course guarantor:
Jiří Tolar
Lecturer:
Josef Schmidt
Tutor:
Filip Moučka, Josef Schmidt, Rudolf Šmolka, Vojtěch Teska, Jan Vysoký
Supervisor:
Department of Physics
Synopsis:

Wave phenomena in mechanics and electromagnetism: modes, standing and travelling waves, wave packets indispersive media. Wave optics: polarization, interference, diffraction, coherence. Geometrical optics. Introduction toquantum physics: black body radiation, quantum of energy, photoeffect, the Compton effect, the de Broglie waves,the Schrodinger equation, stationary states and spectra of finite systems.

Requirements:
Syllabus of lectures:

1. Oscillations of systems of mass points

2. Travelling waves in non-dispersive media

3. Waves in dispersive media

4. Energy and reflection of waves

5. Electromagnetic waves

6. Polarization

7. Interference and diffraction

8. Geometrical optics

9. Black body radiation, photons, de Broglie waves

10. Atomic models and spectra

Syllabus of tutorials:

Solving problems to illustrate the theory from the lecture

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Physics of mechanical and electromagnetic oscillations and waves, introduction to quantum physics.

Skills:

Solving concrete physical and technical examples concerning oscillations and waves.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] W. Demtröder: Electrodynamics and Optics, Springer, 2019.

[2] F. S. Crawford, Jr.: Berkeley Physics Course 3, Waves, McGraw-Hill, New York 1968. (dostupné v knihovně FJFI ČVUT)

Recommended references:

[3] H. Georgi: The Physics of Waves, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ 2015 (http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hgeorgi/onenew.pdf)

Note:
Further information:
https://physics.fjfi.cvut.cz/~schmijos/voaf.php
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
roomBR:103
Schmidt J.
12:00–13:50
(lecture parallel1)
Břehová 7
roomBR:10
Moučka F.
16:00–17:50
(parallel nr.101)
Břehová 7
roomBR:10
Moučka F.
18:00–19:50
(parallel nr.107)
Břehová 7
roomBR:115
Schmidt J.
16:00–17:50
(lecture parallel2)
Břehová 7
Tue
roomTR:207
Teska V.
08:00–09:50
(parallel nr.109)
Trojanova 13
Wed
roomBR:115
Šmolka R.
08:00–09:50
(parallel nr.201)
Břehová 7
roomTR:204
Šmolka R.
10:00–11:50
(parallel nr.106)
Trojanova 13
roomBR:10
Vysoký J.
12:00–13:50
(parallel nr.108)
Břehová 7
roomTR:204
Schmidt J.
16:00–17:50
(lecture parallel2)
Trojanova 13
Thu
roomBR:103
Schmidt J.
10:00–11:50
(lecture parallel1)
Břehová 7
Fri
roomTR:205
Teska V.
08:00–09:50
(parallel nr.105)
Trojanova 13
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-01-14
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet11280705.html