|
Title
|
Relativistic Nuclear Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/RJF1/99
|
Teacher
|
Urbán Jozef
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To
introduce students to the study of nuclear interactions at relativistic
energies.
|
||
|
Content
|
Basic
parameters and quantities of particle collisions at high energies.
Relativistic kinematics, invariants, rapidity and light cone variables. Basic
parameters of high energy nuclear collisions, energy thresholds, the velocity
or sound, cross sections, spectators and participants, temperature, thermal
and transverse spectra, collision volume. Glauber model for hadron-nucleus
and nuclear collisions. The equation of state for nuclear matter. Quark-gluon
plasma.
|
||
|
Title
|
Experimental Methods of Nuclear Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/EJF1a/04
|
Teacher
|
Vokál Stanislav, Kravčáková Adela
|
|
ECTS credits
|
8
|
Hrs/week
|
4/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students the priniciples and methods of the experimental techniques of
nuclear physics.
|
||
|
Content
|
Principles
and construction of particle detectors: quantities characterising detectors.
proportional chambers, MWPC. Drift chambers, TPC. Special types of gas
detectors, MSGC. Silicon detectors (pixels/strips). Scintillators and
photodetectors. Methods of physical quantities measurement: vertex detectors.
track detectors (measurement of coordinates, paths, angles, momenta). Charged
particle identification (ionisation losses, time of flight, etc.).
Calorimetry; electromagnetic and hadron calorimeters. Large detector systems,
fixed target and collider experiments. Basis of electronics used in
subnuclear physics (fundamental concepts, principles, requirements,
specialness). Analogue and digital processing of signal (front-end).
Electronic and physical calibration of measurement (calibration system).
Selection systems (trigger), principles (physical characteristics of
interesting events, electronical realisation), levels. Data readout from
track detectors, calorimeters and particle identifing detectors. Data
acquisition systems (DAQ).
|
||
|
Alternate courses
|
ÚFV/EJF1a/03,ÚFV/EJF1b/99
|
||
Compulsory elective courses
|
Title
|
Group Theory, Classification and Structure of
Elementary Particles
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/TGC1/03
|
Teacher
|
Tóth Ľubomír
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Content
|
Phenomenology
of elementary particles and interactions, conservation laws. Lie groups and
Lie algebras, representations. Unitary groups SU(2), SU(3), SU(4), SU(6), SU(n),
irreducible representations, Young tableaux. Classification of elementary
particles, eightfold way, quark model. New particles, new quarks and higher
symmetries. Subquark models, strings, theory of everything.
|
||
|
Title
|
Applied Nuclear Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/AJF1/03
|
Teacher
|
Martinská Gabriela
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
3/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To show
students the basic applications of nuclear physics.
|
||
|
Content
|
Basic
characteristics of radioactive radiation. Biological effects of radiation.
Dosimetry units. Activation analysis. Radioactive indicators. Radioactive
dating. Applications of radioactivity in medicine.
|
||
|
Title
|
Nuclear Physics Seminar
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/SEB1/04
|
Teacher
|
|
|
ECTS credits
|
1
|
Hrs/week
|
-/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Assessment
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To bring
the topical problems, methods and tools of high energy physics to the
students.
|
||
|
Content
|
Selected
topical problems of nuclear and subnuclear physics.
|
||
|
Title
|
Programming and Data Processing in HEP
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/DJB1/07
|
Teacher
|
Dirner Alexander
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
2/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To provide
students with theoretical and working knowledge of defined topics in this
field.
|
||
|
Content
|
The CERN
program libraries: CERNLIB, the maintenance and development of extensive
programs using PATCHY and CMZ. Statistical processing of experimental data
and their presentation with HBOOK. Physics Analysis Workstation (PAW).
Utilisation of GEANT. Publication and presentation of results with LaTeX.
WWW, CSS for creating HTML documents.
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
Microsoft Fortran Version 5.0 Reference;
Convex Fortran Language Reference;
Goossens M: Using LaTeX at CERN;
CERN Program Library Long Writeup Y250;
HBOOK Reference Manual;
CERN PAW User's Guide Ref. Manual;
|
||
|
Title
|
Nuclear Reactions
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/JRE1/03
|
Teacher
|
Tóth Ľubomír
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students the physics of nuclear reactions.
|
||
|
Content
|
Classification
of nuclear reactions. Conservation laws, kinematics. Elastic and inelastic
scattering. Diffraction and optical theorem. Resonance reactions. Bohr model
of nuclear reactions, compound nucleus. Density of energy states. Partial
statistical model. Optical model. Direct reactions. Plane-wave Born
approximation. Distorted- wave Born approximation. Pre-compound model of
nuclear reactions. Exciton model. Heavy ion reactions. Nuclear synthesis.
|
||
|
Title
|
Special Practice in Nuclear Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/SPJ1/99
|
Teacher
|
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
-/3
|
|
Assessment
|
Assessment
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
Practice in
nuclear physics - methods of identification of unknown beta radiators (alpha,
beta, gamma) using selected detectors.
|
||
|
Content
|
Introduction
to practice. Gamma radiator identification using ethalon. Gamma radiator
activity determination. Identification of unknown beta radiators from their
maximal energy. Statistical processing of the data measurements. Emulsion
detector - geometrical measurements and their evaluation. Determination of
short lived radioisotop halftimes.
Semiconductor
detectors.
|
||
|
Title
|
Nuclear Physics Seminar
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/SEC1/04
|
Teacher
|
|
|
ECTS credits
|
1
|
Hrs/week
|
-/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Assessment
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To bring
the topical problems, methods and tools of high energy physics to the
students.
|
||
|
Content
|
Selected
topical problems of nuclear and subnuclear physics.
|
||
|
Title
|
Plasma Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/FPL/03
|
Teacher
|
Kudela Karel
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students the characteristics of plasma objects in space.
|
||
|
Content
|
Matter in
space, distribution function, equation of continuity in phase space. Earth
magnetosphere. Radiation belts. Ionosphere and upper atmosphere. Solar wind.
Solar eruptions. Heliosphere. Space weather.
|
||
|
Title
|
Methods of Clinical Dosimetry
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/KDO1/99
|
Teacher
|
Matula Pavel
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students the basic methods of clinical dosimetry.
|
||
|
Content
|
The basic
concepts of clinical dosimetry and its radiotherapy applications. The sources
of ionising radiation. Dose measurement methods. New trends in clinical
dosimetry. PC supported topometry and dosimetry of beams ”in phantoms” and
”in vivo” dosimetry. 3D-figures (based on tomograph slices) in simulation
methods and their use in radiotherapy.
|
||
|
Title
|
Introduction to Simulations and Modelling of
Experiments
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/ZMSE/07
|
Teacher
|
Kravčáková Adela, Urbán Jozef
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
2/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students the basics of Monte-Carlo methods and their applications in the
simulation of high energy physics processes.
|
||
|
Content
|
Mathematical
foundations of Monte-Carlo methods. Buffon`s needle and basic MC methods.
Comparisons of Monte-Carlo integrations with numerical quadrature. Random
number generators (random numbers, random numbers generation, tests of random
number generators). Monte-Carlo simulations of high energy physics processes.
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
James F.: Monte-Carlo theory and practice, Rep. Prog.
Phys. 43, 1980, s. 1145-1189; Cern preprint DD/80/6, February 1980.
http://placzek.home.cern.ch/placzek/lectures,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
|
||
|
Title
|
Introduction to Experimental Methods in Nuclear
Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/UMJF/06
|
Teacher
|
Vokál Stanislav, Kravčáková Adela
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
2/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Content
|
Accelerators
of charged particles: linear and circular, colliding beams. Particle passage
through the matter. Energy loss of charged particles. Multiple scattering.
Interactions of electrons and gamma radiation with matter. Transition
radiation. Particle detection. Gaseous ionisation detectors. Scintillation
detectors. Cherenkov detectors. Semiconductor detectors. Spectrometry of
charged particles. Tracking detectors.
|
||
|
Title
|
Solid State Spectroscopy
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/SPE1/03
|
Teacher
|
Orendáčová Alžbeta, Petrovič Pavol, Imrich Ján
|
|
ECTS credits
|
5
|
Hrs/week
|
3/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Content
|
Methods of
condensed matter spectroscopy:
1.
Mössbauer spectroscopy. The physical bases of Mössbauer effect. Probability
of recoil-free nuclear resonance absorption of gamma-radiation in solids.
Analysis of hyperfine interactions of nuclei with their surroundings:
electric monopole, electric quadrupole, and magnetic dipole interactions.
Mössbauer spectroscopy, processing of experimental data, physical
interpretation of hyperfine structure of Mössbauer spectra: intensity and
width of lines, isomer shift, quadrupole splitting and magnetic
splitting.
2. NMR/EPR
spectroscopy. Basic properties of nuclei. Interactions of nuclei with
magnetic and electric fields. Nuclear paramagnetism. Continual wave and pulse
nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. Relaxation processes in nuclear spin
system. Electron spin resonance. Spin-orbital interaction and interaction with
crystal field. Detection of electron paramagnetic and ferromagnetic
resonances.
|
||
|
Alternate courses
|
ÚFV/SPE1/99
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
Dickson P.E., Berry F.J.: Mössbauer spectroscopy.
Cambridge University Press, London 1986
Hennel J. W., Kolinowski J.: Fundamentals of Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance. Longman Scientific and Technical, Essex 1993
Maddock A.G.: Mössbauer spectroscopy. Principles and
Applications of the Techniques. Horwood Publishing, Chichester, 1997
Slichter C. P.: Principles of Magnetic Resonance, Springer-Verlag,
London, 1990
|
||
|
Title
|
Cosmic Rays
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/KZI1/03
|
Teacher
|
Kudela Karel
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To teach
students about cosmic rays and the physical processes forming their fluxes
and detection methods.
|
||
|
Content
|
Energetic
particles in space. Origin of cosmic rays. Interaction of cosmic rays with
matter. Detectors of cosmic rays, X- and gamma rays. Cosmic rays in the upper
atmosphere. Geomagnetic effects on cosmic rays. Solar wind and its influence
on cosmic rays. Acceleration mechanism of cosmic rays.
|
||
|
Title
|
Nuclear Physics Seminar
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/SED1/04
|
Teacher
|
|
|
ECTS credits
|
1
|
Hrs/week
|
-/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Assessment
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To bring
the topical problems, methods and tools of high energy physics to the
students.
|
||
|
Content
|
Selected
topical problems of nuclear and subnuclear physics.
|
||
|
Title
|
Selected Topics in Elementary Particle Physics
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/PFC1/03
|
Teacher
|
Kravčáková Adela, Urbán Jozef
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To provide
students a unified description of processes in nuclear and particle physics
and to make them aware of selected experiments that demonstrate nuclear and
nucleon substructures, quarks.
|
||
|
Content
|
Nucleon-nucleon
interactions at high and relativistic energies. Geometric shape of nuclei,
nuclear form factor. Elastic scattering of electrons on nucleons, form factor
of nucleons. Deep inelastic scattering and the structure of particles.
Scaling and the parton model. Charge independence and strangeness. G-parity.
Classification of particles according to their strangeness. Quark model,
coloured quarks and gluons and strong interaction. Resonances. Baryon and
boson resonances.
|
||
|
Prerequisite courses
|
ÚFV/FEC1/03 orÚFV/FEC1/04
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
Perkins D.H.: Introduction to high energy physics,
Oxford, 1987
Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche: Particles and Nuclei, An
Introduction to the Physical Concepts, Berlin, 1993
Ryder L.: Elementary particles and symetries
Close F.: Quarks and Partons
|
||
Elective courses
|
Title
|
Neural networks
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚINF/NEU1/03
|
Teacher
|
Andrejková Gabriela
|
|
ECTS credits
|
5
|
Hrs/week
|
2/1
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To
establish student understanding and knowledge for using basic paradigms of
neural networks.
|
||
|
Content
|
Feed-forward
and recurrent neural networks; back propagation algorithm to adaptation of
neural networks; capability of neural networks to be universal approximators.
Hopfield neural networks and solving optimisation problems. Kohonen neural
networks. Neural networks in connections to computational models. Theoretical
problems of neural networks.
|
||
|
Alternate courses
|
ÚINF/NEU1/00 orÚINF/NEU1/99
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
J. Hertz, A.Krogh, R.G. Palmer: Introduction to the
theory of neural computation, Addison Wesley, 1991.
|
||
|
Title
|
General Theory of Relativity
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/TRV1/00
|
Teacher
|
Mockovčiak Samuel
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Content
|
Overview of
the special theory of relativity (STR). Uniformly accelerated motion in STR.
Local principle of equivalence: Eotvos experiment. Tensor calculus in
pseudo-Riemann metric. Einstein’s equations of gravitational field.
Schwarzschild's solution for spherically symetric field. Experimental tests
of the general theory of relativity. Black holes. Solutions for homogeneous
and isotropic distribution of mass. Cosmological applications.
|
||
|
Prerequisite courses
|
ÚFV/TRS1/99 or ÚFV/TRS/03
|
||
|
Alternate courses
|
ÚFV/TRV1/99
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
Landau L.D., Lifshitz E.M.: The classical theory of
fields. Addison- Wesley, Reading, Mass., USA, 1977
|
||
|
Title
|
New Information and Communication Technologies
|
||
|
Code
|
ÚFV/IKTN/03
|
Teacher
|
Murín Pavel, Černák Jozef, Dirner Alexander
|
|
ECTS credits
|
4
|
Hrs/week
|
1/2
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
3
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture, Practical
|
||
|
Objective
|
To
introduce students to new information and communication technologies and
their practical application in education, research activities and the
popularisation of science.
|
||
|
Content
|
Introduction
to new trends in internet communications with voice and video
(videoconferencing, webcasting, videostreaming, video on demand, distance
learning etc.). Presentation and individual training.
|
||
Study programme Physics
(Full-time
master)
Code
Title ECTS Credit Hours/week
Assessment Recommended
Year/Semester
Compulsory
courses
|
ÚFV/TKL1/99
|
Theory of Condensed Matter
|
8
|
4/2
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/POF1b/99
|
Computational Physics II
|
1
|
2/1
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/ARE1a/99
|
Automation of Physical Experiments
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/KTP1a/03
|
Quantum Field Theory I
|
6
|
3/1
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/ARE1a/99
|
Automation of Physical Experiments
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/FMT/03
|
Physics of Materials II
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/TKL1/99
|
Theory of Condensed Matter
|
2
|
1/2
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚINF/PAZ1a/03
|
Programming, Algorithms, and Complexity
|
9
|
3/1
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/EMT1/03
|
Experimental Methods in Solid State Physics I
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚINF/OSY1/03
|
Operational Systems
|
2
|
2/2
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/KEM1/99
|
Ceramics Materials
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚINF/FUN1/01
|
Functional Programming
|
6
|
2/2
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/PHP/02
|
Variable Stars
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/OSA1/99
|
Solid State Physics Seminar
|
1
|
-/1
|
Assessment
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/TSA1/99
|
Theoretical Physics I Seminar
|
2
|
-/2
|
Assessment
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/NOT1a/03
|
Nontraditional Optimisation techniques I
|
2
|
2/2
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
KFaDF/DF2p/07
|
History of Philosophy
|
4
|
2/1
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/MKL/03
|
Magnetic Properties of Solids
|
6
|
1/-
|
Examination
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/KVP/02
|
Introductory Course in Quantum Computers
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚINF/NEU1/03
|
Neural networks
|
2
|
2/1
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/TGC1/03
|
Group Theory, Classification and Structure of Elementary
Particles
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/ARE1b/99
|
Automation of Physical Experiments
|
3
|
-/3
|
Assessment
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/NOT1b/03
|
Nontraditional Optimisation Techniques II
|
2
|
2/2
|
Examination
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/NME1b/01
|
Celestial Mechanics II
|
2
|
3/1
|
Zápočet
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/FPK1/01
|
Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
|
3
|
2/-
|
Examination
|
1/2
|
|
ÚINF/PAZ1b/03
|
Programming, Algorithms, and Complexity
|
1
|
2/1
|
Examination
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/ARE1b/99
|
Automation of Physical Experiments
|
3
|
-/3
|
Assessment
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/PAF1b/01
|
Practice in Astrophysics II
|
1
|
-/1
|
Assessment
|
1/1
|
|
ÚFV/UMV1/99
|
Special Practical Exercises II
|
3
|
-/3
|
Assessment
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/KTP1b/03
|
Quantum Field Theory II
|
6
|
3/1
|
Examination
|
1/2
|
|
ÚFV/BSIM1/03
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Biomolecular Simulations
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6
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2/2
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1/2
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ÚFV/NKM1/99
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Non-conventional Metallic Materials
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3
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2/-
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Computational Physics II
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1
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2/1
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General Theory of Relativity
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3
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2/-
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Physics of the Nucleus
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3
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2/-
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ÚFV/OSB1/99
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Solid State Physics Seminar
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1
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-/1
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1/2
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ÚFV/POL1/99
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Physics of Polymers
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3
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2/-
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Examination
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2/3
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ÚFV/NMA/02
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Numerical Methods in Linear Algebra
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3
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1/1
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Examination
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2/3
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ÚFV/SPE1/03
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Solid State Spectroscopy
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2
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3/1
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2/3
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ÚFV/POF1a/99
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Computational Physics I
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1
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2/1
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Examination
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1/2
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ÚFV/PP1/99
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Physics of Semiconductor Elements
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3
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2/-
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2/3
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Transport and Surface Phenomena
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1
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3/-
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1/2
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ÚFV/KVP/02
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Introductory Course in Quantum Computers
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3
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2/-
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2/3
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General Theory of Relativity
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3
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2/-
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1/2
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Low temperature Physics
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6
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2/3
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Theoretical Physics I Seminar
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2
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2/3
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ÚFV/DTD/02
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Binaries and Close Binaries
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3
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1/2
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Solid State Physics Seminar
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1
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2/3
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Special Practical Exercises I
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3
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2/3
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Complex Systems
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2
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2/2
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2/3
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Practical Astrophysics
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1
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2/-
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Econophysics
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1
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2/1
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2/3
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Theoretical Physics II Seminar
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2
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-/2
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Assessmen
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1/2
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ÚFV/PAST/02
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Computational Astrophysics
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3
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Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
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Differential Geometry
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ÚFV/TGF/06
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Group Theory for Physicists
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1
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2/1
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ÚFV/TGC1/03
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Group Theory, Classification and Structure of Elementary
Particles
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3
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Computational Physics II
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1
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2/1
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2/3
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ÚFV/SSA1a/99
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Special Seminar in Astronomy I
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2
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1/2
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Econophysics
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1
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2/1
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2/3
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ÚFV/ZCA/03
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Introductory Course in CCD Astronomy
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3
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Philosophical Aspects of Astronomy
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2
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Diploma Seminar
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2
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2/3
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Interstellar Matter
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6
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Solar Physics
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2
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Summer Practice in Astrophysics I
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1
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Recognition
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1/2
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Summer Practice in Astrophysics II
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1
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1/2
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ÚFV/TSE2/03
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Theoretical Physics III Seminar
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2
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Zápočet
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2/3
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ÚFV/ERS/01
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Exactly Solvable Models in
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1
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Selected Chapters in Theoretical Astrophysics
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3
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Extrasolar Planets
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Theoretical Astrophysics II
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Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
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Cosmology
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2
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Course units
Compulsory elective courses
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Title
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Theory of Condensed Matter
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Code
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ÚFV/TKL1/99
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Teacher
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Bobák Andrej, Gmitra Martin
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ECTS credits
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2
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Hrs/week
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1/2
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Assessment
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Examination
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Semester
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1
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T/L method
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Lecture, Practical
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||
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Objective
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To teach
students to manage basic methods of quasiparticle formalism of solid state
physics (electrons, phonons, electron-electron, electron-phonon interactions,
magnons).
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Content
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One-electron
approximation. Translation operators and Bloch's theorem. Existence of energy
bands. Kronig-Penney model. Nearly free electron theory. Brillouin zones.
Tight binding approximation. The k.p. method. Effective mass tensor.
Effective mass Hamiltonian. Lattice waves. Linear monoatomic and diatomic
lattices. Phonons in one and three dimensions. Acoustic and optical modes.
Dynamic matrix. Lattice specific heat. Electron-phonon interactions. The
Fröhlich Hamiltonian. The attractive interaction between electrons. Spin
waves and Heisenberg Hamiltonian. Linear chain with ferromagnetic
interaction. Three-dimensional case. Magnons. Spontaneous magnetisation.
Specific heat. Superconductivity. The BCS Hamiltonian. The Bogolyubov-Valatin
transformation. The temperature-dependent gap parameter. The transition
temperature.
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Recommended reading
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Ch. Kittel: Quantum Theory of Solids, John
Wiley & Sons Inc, 1922
N.W. Ashcroft, N.D. Mermin: Solid State Physics,
Harcourt College Publishers, 1916
P.L. Taylor: A Quantum Approach to the Solid State,
Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1910
J.M. Ziman, Principles of the Theory of Solids,
University Press, Cambridge, 1912
A.O.E. Animalu, Intermediate Quantum Theory of
Crystalline Solids, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
1921
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Title
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Automation of Physical Experiments
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Code
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ÚFV/ARE1a/99
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Teacher
|
Orendáč Martin
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ECTS credits
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3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
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Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
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T/L method
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Lecture
|
||
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Objective
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To teach
students the design of automated setups for performing selected types of
physical measurements and the properties involved in measurement and
controlling subsystems.
|
||
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Content
|
Structure
of systems of automated measurement and control. Characterisation of
instruments equipped with microcomputer. Sensors of physical quantities,
principle of operation, technical realisation of selected types of sensors.
Elements for processing signals from sensors. Electronic regulators, software
simulation of analogue regulators. Standard communication protocols: CAMAC,
IEEE122, RS232. Universal microprocessors and microcomputers. Digital signal
processing. Design of digital filters.
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Recommended reading
|
J. Uffenbeck, Microcomputers and microprocessors,
Prentice Hall, 1922
P. Horowitz, W. Hill, The Art of Electronics,
Cambridge University Press 1929
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Title
|
Experimental Methods in Solid State Physics I
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Code
|
ÚFV/EMT1/03
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Teacher
|
Orendáč Martin
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
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T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To clarify
selected experimental techniques applied in the experimental study of solids
and to provide students with discussion of physical phenomena associated with
the techniques and design of model experimental setups.
|
||
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Content
|
Low level
signal measurements. Study of dielectric properties. Dielectric polarisation,
susceptibility, permitivity. Capacitors partially filled with dielectric material.
Capacitors for permitivity study in liquids and solids. Specific heat,
thermal and electrical conductivity measurements. Introduction to vacuum
technology. Studying the Hall effect and magnetoresistance in semiconductors.
Thermoelectric phenomena.
|
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Alternate courses
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ÚFV/EMT1/99
|
||
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Recommended reading
|
Supporting material is available.
|
||
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Title
|
Ceramics Materials
|
||
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Code
|
ÚFV/KEM1/99
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Teacher
|
Zeleňáková Adriana, Fuzer Jan
|
|
ECTS credits
|
3
|
Hrs/week
|
2/-
|
|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
1
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To
introduce students to the properties of a wide range of ceramics and to
develop students’ confidence concerning the preparation of these materials.
|
||
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Content
|
Introduction
to solid state science. The fabrication of ceramics. Construction ceramics.
Mechanical properties of construction ceramics. Ceramics conductors.
Dielectrics and insulators. Piezoeletrics ceramics. Pyroelectric materials.
Electro-optic ceramics. Magnetic ceramics. Aplications of ceramics materials
in a modern industry.
|
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|
Recommended reading
|
1. A. J. Moulson, J. M. Herbert,
Electroceramics, Chapman and Hall, London 1990.
2. M. W. Barsoum, Fundamentals
of Ceramics, Taylor & Francis, 2002.
|
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Title
|
Magnetic Properties of Solids
|
||
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Code
|
ÚFV/MKL/03
|
Teacher
|
Kollár Peter
|
|
ECTS credits
|
6
|
Hrs/week
|
1/-
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|
Assessment
|
Examination
|
Semester
|
2
|
|
T/L method
|
Lecture
|
||
|
Objective
|
To give
students a general view of basic magnetic phenomena, intrinsic magnetic
properties of various magnetic materials, magnetisation processes and domain
structure.
|
||
|
Content
|
Magnetic
materials and magnetisation. Magnetic quantities. Carriers of magnetic
moment. Vector model of the atom. Magnetic field sources. Measurements of
magnetic field. Diamagnetism. Paramagnetism. Ferromagnetism.
Antiferromagnetism. Ferrimagnetism. Magnetic behavior and structure of
materials. Neutron diffraction. Magnetic anisotropy. Hall effect,
magnetoresistance. Domain structure. Magnetostriction. Technical
magnetisation. Dynamic magnetisation processes. Susceptibility. Thin films.
|
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Alternate courses
|
ÚFV/MKL1/99
|
||
|
Recommended reading
|
S. Chikazumi: Physics of Magnetism, J.Willey and
Sons, Inc. New York, London, Sydney, 1991.
D. Jiles: Introduction to magnetism and magnetic
materials, Chapman&Hall, London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Madras, 1991
R. C. O’Handley: Modern Magnetic Materials,
Principles and Applications, J.Willey and Sons, Inc. New York, 1999
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