Measurement and Experiment

Course guarantor:

Jiří Čáp

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Jiří Čáp, Šárka Němcová

Supervisor:

Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering

Synopsis:

Students will held 12 laboratory tasks in field of fine mechanics and optics. Every student work at its own workplace. Students became familiar to many laboratory equipments and measurement methods.

Requirements:

Laboratory tasks participation. To write output reports.

Syllabus of lectures:

Laboratory exercise to practice and deepen knowledge of geometric and wave optics.

Measurement of a wedge angle of a prism

Refractometry

Measurement of lens focal length by Cornu method, resolving power of lens

Measurement of lens focal length by Bessel method and form two object positions

Measurement of Abbe number

Illumination system

Grating measurement

Measurement of transmission and reflection

Cole mine interferometer

Rayleigh interferometer

Measurement of mirror flatness

Diffraction at a pinhole and slit, coherence length

Polarization and Brewsters angle, retardation plates

Syllabus of tutorials:

12 laboratory tasks in field of fine mechanics and optics

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Moodle

Wiliams D. C.: Optical Methods in Engineering Metrology, Chapman&Hall, 1993

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

	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
Tue	roomT4:110 Čáp J. 09:00–12:15 Dejvice
Wed
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: