6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1001388CNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed for "Experimental Physics" and "Applied Statistics".
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Physics
Educational team
Jorgen D'Hondt (course titular)
Seth Moortgat
Paul Coppin
Activities and contact hours

65 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Possible content

- Electromagnetic radiation: Polarization
- Electromagnetic radiation: Interference and Diffraction
- e/m ratio
- Radioactivity: Decay laws, absorption laws, statistics
- Radioactivity: The Rutherford experiment
- Röntgen radiation: Bragg’s law, emission spectrum, determination of Planck’s constant
- Stefan’s law
- Planck’s law
- The Franck and Hertz experiment
- Photoelectric effect
- Double slit experiment (experiment of Young)

During this course in total about 7 workshops are organized covering divers topics in the field of radiation and quantum physics. During the workshops the themes will be discussed and via experimental reasoning the empirical tests will be proposed to study the concepts. Thereafter the students will effectively perform the experiment.

This course also includes the biannual visit to CERN for 2BA and 3Ba students.

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Digitaal beschikbaar, http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~jdhondt/Website/WebsiteCourses.html, http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~jdhondt/Website/WebsiteCourses.html
Additional info

http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~jdhondt/Website/WebsiteCourses.html Accompanying notes will be handed out.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

Introduction to experimental aspects of radiation and quantum physics. The term “radiation” is used in a broad sense, and includes electromagnetic radiation, radioactivity, beams of particles etc.
Some experiments concern the wave properties of electromagnetic radiation.
Subjects treated in radioactivity include Poisson statistics, decay laws, scattering properties and absorption laws.
Quantum physical subjects include thermal radiation, Planck’s postulate and some aspects of the particle/wave duality.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Practical Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
PRAC Report determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Practical Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Practical exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the PRAC Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Reports with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

50% on reports on the experiments in the year
50% on an "exam" experiment

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Physics and Astronomy: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: biologie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: geografie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: chemie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: wiskunde (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Science and Technology: ingenieurswetenschappen (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)