Module Identifier | PH17010 | ||||||||
Module Title | CONCEPTS IN PHYSICS | ||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | ||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Tudor E Jenkins | ||||||||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||||||||
Next year offered | N/A | ||||||||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||||||||
Other staff | Professor Andrew Evans | ||||||||
Pre-Requisite | Normal entry requirements for part 1 Physics | ||||||||
Co-Requisite | None | ||||||||
Mutually Exclusive | None | ||||||||
Course delivery | Other | Workshop. 2 workshops | |||||||
Lecture | 18 lectures | ||||||||
Assessment |
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Propagation of electromagnetic energy - the wave and photon picture.
a) optical spectrum
Sources of visible light.
The LASER and the special properties of laser light
Types of laser with some practical demonstrations of argon ion and semiconductor systems.
The coherence of light.
Use of coherence properties of lasers - speckle phenomena and holography.
Optical waveguiding - optical fibres, integrated optics and the route to optical computers.
Introduction to geometrical optics.
b) high energy electromagnetic spectrum (x-rays and gamma-rays)
properties of x-rays and gamma-rays (energy, wavelength, ionisation, attenuation)
production of x-rays (x-ray tubes, synchrotron radiation)
production of gamma-rays (radioactive decay, annihilation)
detection of x-rays and gamma-rays (gas ionisation and solid state detectors)
application of x-rays and gamma-rays (diffraction, spectroscopy, imaging,
radio-therapy)
c) Infra-red spectrum
Sources of infra-red radiation
Detectors of infra-red radiation
Thermal imaging
d) radio spectrum
radio transmission, modulation and demodulation
radio astronomy
radio sources in the universe
This module is at CQFW Level 4