Study Guide@lith
 

Linköping Institute of Technology

 
 
Valid for year : 2016
 
TFFM08 Experimental Physics, 6 ECTS credits.
/Experimentell fysik/

For:   MED   MFYS   MSN   Y  


OBS!

Exchange students may apply for the course after arrival to LiTH but before it starts. The international officer for exchange studies must be contacted before applying.

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 84
Rec. self-study hours: 76

  Area of Education: Science

Main field of studies: Physics, Applied Physics

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The overall goal with the course is to provide the student a deeper knowledge and understanding of some modern physics measurement- and analysis-methods. The course should also develop and secure the students ability to:
  • Perform physics experiments
  • Apply knowledge from earlier courses
  • Analyze and compile experimental and calculated results
  • Account for results obtained in writing
  • Actively contribute to create a well functioning project group


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Modern Physics, Wave Motion and Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, are desirable.

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Supplementary courses:
Physics of Condensed Matter, part 1, and Analytical Methods in Material Science

Organisation:
The course consists of a series of laboratory exercises and is introduced by a short series of lectures.
The course runs over the entire autumn semester.


Course contents:
The introductory lectures treat subjects such as crystal structure and diffraction, radioactivity, the interaction of ionized radiation with matter and radiation detection. The series of laboratory exercises include primarily subjects from the courses Modern Physics, Wave Motion and Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. It also contains subjects that are treated in the courses Quantum Mechanics and Physics of Condensed Matter. Examples of laboratory exercises included are: Holography, Emission-spectrometry, Zeeman effect, X-Ray Spectroscopy, Optical pumping, Laue camera, Vacuum-technology, Mass-Spectroscopy, Analysis of gamma-spectrum, Curie and Ising model, Fiber optics and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.

Course literature:
Lab instructions and some additional material

Examination:
Laboratory course and written reports
6 ECTS
 
Grades are given as �?�Fail�?� or �?�Pass�?�.



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IFM.
Director of Studies: Magnus Johansson
Examiner: Nguyen Son
Link to the course homepage at the department


Course Syllabus in Swedish

Linköping Institute of Technology

 


Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 05/21/2014