PdF:FY2BP_F4A Atom Physics - Course Information
FY2BP_F4A Atom Physics
Faculty of EducationAutumn 2008
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Vratislav Kapička, DrSc. (lecturer)
RNDr. Jindřiška Svobodová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner) - Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Vladislav Navrátil, CSc.
Department of Physics – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Gabriela Vohradská - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- FY2BP_MAF1 Mathematics for Physics
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Physics (programme PdF, B-SPE)
- Course objectives
- This course deals with concepts in atomic and nuclear physics. The
course will be weighted approximately 2/3 atomic and 1/3 nuclear.
Emphasis in this course is placed on the physically-historical context.
At the end students should be able to interpret scinetific development in this difficult part of physics
Quantum Physics
H. Hertz, M.Planck, Einstein, Compton, De Broglie, C. J. Davisson
Atomic and nuclear physics Thompson, E. Rutherford, J. Franck, G. Hertz, L. Meitnerová etc. - Syllabus
- Atomic Physics. Historical Introduction, Early Atomic Models
- Atom Separation of Variables, Solutions to the Radial and Angular Equations
- The Zeeman effect
- Spin, The Stern-Gerlach Experiment Spin-Orbit Coupling and the Addition of Angular Momentum. Fine Structure
- Laser
- Nuclear Physics
- Binding Energy
- Radioactivity
- Alpha Decay Beta Decay and the Neutrino Gamma Decay.
- Carbon Dating Gamma Decay and Multipolarity
- Nuclear Reactions: the Cross Section
- Rutherford Scattering
- Literature
- Špolskij, E. V. Atomová fyzika. 1, Úvod do atomové fyziky. 2. vyd. Praha : Státní nakladatelství technické literatury, 1957. 432 s. info
- Beiser, Arthur. Úvod do moderní fyziky [Beiser, 1978] : Perspectives of modern physics (Orig.). Translated by Josef Čada. 2. vyd. Praha : Academia, 1978. 628 s. r78U. r78. r84. info
- Halliday, David - Resnick, Robert - Walker, Jearl. Fyzika, část 5 - Moderní fyzika. Brno, Praha: Vutium, Prometheus, 2000.
- Bookmarks
- https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/PedF:FY2BP_F4A!
- Assessment methods
- Lectures
Homework will be assigned roughly once per month. Lecturer will choose several problems on each homework set to be graded.
Oral Exam
Homeworks: 20% Final Exam: 80% - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2008, recent)
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