F7200 Modern physics and its applications

Faculty of Science
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Ing. Slavomír Entler, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Jašek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jana Jurmanová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Pavel Konečný, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Zdeněk Navrátil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Pazderka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Šíra, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Mgr. Tomáš Tyc, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Zdeněk Navrátil, Ph.D.
Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Plasma Physics and Technology – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:50 F1 6/1014
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the subject is to introduce students to modern physics and its applications in a simple form. The course is aimed mainly at science teacher students, who deal with modern physics topics in practice with their own students but do not have support for them in the basic physics course. The selection of topics is guided precisely by this goal, the subject thus includes theoretical and experimental topics, but also the topics on the border of science and technology.
Lecturers are teachers and experts from practice who deal with the topic of the lecture professionally. At the same time, the teachers' effort is to conduct lessons in a simple form, which should be understandable not only to physics teaching students but also to students of other natural science disciplines.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
describe topics addressed by contemporary physics; give a basic explanation of the discussed phenomena; orient oneself in the current possibilities of instrumentation of a modern physics laboratory; explain the basic procedures of modern technologies
Syllabus
  • General relativity and its consequences
  • Standard model of particle physics
  • Cosmology
  • Quantum entanglement and teleportation
  • Modern optics and applications
  • Metrology
  • Optical spectroscopy
  • Ionizing radiation and medical applications
  • Nuclear fusion - ITER project
  • Electron microscopy
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nanomaterials
Teaching methods
teaching cycle of lectures
Assessment methods
The course ends with a credit, which the student receives for 80% attendance at lectures and continual submition of questionaries (ROPOTs) after each attended lecture.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2023.
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