Code: 02VOAF Waves, Optics and Atomic Physics
Lecturer: prof. Ing. Jiøí Tolar DrSc. Weekly load: 4+2 Completion: A, EX
Department: 14102 Credits: 6 Semester: W
Description:
Wave phenomena in mechanics and electromagnetism: modes, standing and travelling waves, wave packets indispersive media. Wave optics: polarization, interference, diffraction, coherence. Geometrical optics. Introduction to quantum 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.
Contents:
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
Seminar contents:
Solving problems to illustrate the theory from the lecture
Recommended literature:
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 knihovnì FJFI ÈVUT)

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)
Keywords:
oscillations, standing waves, travelling waves, plane waves, dispersion relation, quasimonochromatic wave packets, phase velocity, group velocity, characteristic impedance, energy density, energy flux density, reflectivity, radiation pressure, polarization of light, interference, diffraction grid, diffraction on a slit, Fermat's principle, Planck law of radiation, photoeffect, atomic models, atomic spectra

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