FY506: Electromagnetism II (5 ECTS)

STADS: 07000601

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.
2. quarter.

Teacher responsible
Email: per@ifk.sdu.dk

Additional teachers
vvp@ifk.sdu.dk
kloesgen@memphys.sdu.dk
sigmund@ifk.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
FY503 Eletromagnetism I must be known.

Course introduction
To give the students basic knowledge of fundamental principles behind electromagnetic oscillations and optical waves. The course provides general conceptual background for understanding basic optical phenomena.

Qualifications
After the course, the students should be able to:

- understand basic phenomena in optics
- design and analyze setups used to project and record optical images
- use optical and spectroscopic instruments

Expected learning outcome
Having followed the course, the students will be able to:

• explain the physical meaning of Maxwell*s equations and of the physical quantities entering in their definition
• establish simple solutions of the Maxwell equations in one, two, and three spatial dimensions
• describe interference phenomena among harmonical waves in one and two spatial dimensions
•analyze beam paths in geometrical optical systems with up to two components
• explain how an optical microscope works and sketch the imaging and the illumination paths
• describe the polarization properties of light and their effect when light is reflected from interfaces or is transmitted through optically birefringent materials

Subject overview
The course consists of one 5 ECTS teaching block.

Theory part (3 ECTS):

1. Maxwell’s equations (electromagnetic waves; superposition principle)
2. Light waves (Huygen’s principle; refraction and reflection)
3. Mirrors and lenses (eye; telescope; microscope)
4. Interference phenomenon (multilayer coatings, Fabry-Perot interferometer)
5. Diffraction (resolution limit)
6. Gratings and spectra (spectrometer)

Experimental part (2 ECTS):

3 experiments:
1. Optical reflection and transmission
2. Optical microscopy.
3. Optical diffraction and polarization

Literature

• Udvalgte kapitler fra / Selected chapters from:Mansfield & O’Sullivan: Understanding Physics.

  Supplerende litteratur:

• Hecht & Zajac: Optics.
• Pedrotti & Pedrotti: Introduction to Optics.
• P. Sigmund: Lecture Notes , 2007.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
a) 4 hour written exam with external censorship. Grade according to the 7-scale.
b) Lab exercises evaluated pass/fail, internal censorship by the teacher. Lab exercises constitute 2 of the 5 ECTS course points.
Lab exercises must be passed before the written exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.

24 forelæsningstimer. 9 laboratorieøvelsestimer, 1 times forberedelse til lab.øv, 16 regneøvelsestimer.
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Language
This course is taught in English, if international students participate. Otherwise the course is taught in Danish.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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