FY525: Optik, spektroskopi og atomets struktur (5 ECTS)

STADS: 07006901

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the autumn semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: vvp@sdu.dk

Timetable
There is no timetable available for the chosen semester.

Comment:
AFLYST E13!

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
FY506 must have been attended or attended parallel.

Course introduction
The course provides a general conceptual background for understanding basic optical and spectral instruments, the nature of light as photons and electromagnetic waves, and interaction of light with atoms.

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: 

• analyze beam paths in optical systems 
• describe interference phenomena among harmonic waves 
• mathematically describe basic diffraction phenomena and explain the fundamental limitations it places on resolution of optical/spectral instruments 
• describe the polarization properties of light and its impact upon interaction with matter 
• understand and describe reflection and transmission of light at interfaces of transparent materials 
• understand atomic structure and correlate it with position of an element in the periodic table
• use spectral instruments to record atomic spectra
• report their laboratory experiments in a formally correct and complete way (including result analysis and discussion and error discussion)

Subject overview
Lectures and tutorials (3 ECTS):

1. Interference phenomena (Michelson and Fabry-Perot interferometers) 
2. Diffraction (diffraction and resolution limit) 
3. Gratings and spectra (spectrometer and x-ray diffraction) 
4. Polarization (birefringence, Fresnel equations)
5. Photon concept
6. Matter waves (basic elements of quantum mechanics) 
7. Atomic structure and spectroscopy

Experimental part (2 ECTS):
Experiments related to the following topics:

1. Polarization
2. Recording atomic spectra with a spectrometer
3. Study of splitting of spectral lines using Fabry-Perot interferometer

Literature
There isn't any litterature for the course at the moment.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:

1. Lab. work. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher. (2 ECTS). (07006912).
2. Oral exam based on lab. reports. Danish 7 mark scale, internal examiner. (3 ECTS). (07006902).

Reexam in the same exam period or immediately thereafter.

A closer description of the exam rules will be posted under 'Course Information' on Blackboard.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 22 hours
Skills training phase: 28 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 14 hours
 - Laboratory exercises: 14 hours

Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Remarks
This course connects electromagnetism and quantum physics and is recommended to all students with physics as their main area of study

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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