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Welcome to the Experimental Physics 3 Course! ¶

In this Experimental Physics 3 course, we will dive into to basic experiments and mathematical descriptions related to light propagation, electromagnetic waves and its material counter part of matter waves. In particular we will have a look at

Geometrical Optics

Wave Optics1

Electromagnetic Waves

Matter Waves and Quantum Mechanics

The fields of optics and quantum mechanics are nowadays very active research areas with a dynamically devloping field of optical technologies, high resolution microscopy and quantum information. All this builds on the fundations that are tackled in this course. To back up the lectures I further recommend books that are listed in the resources section of the website.

Course Information:

• This Website
• Course Schedule
• Assignments
• Molecular Nanophotonics Group
• Instructors

Course Introduction:

• Lecture Contents
• What is Jupyter Notebook?
• Notebook editor
• Notebook documents
• Command mode
• Keyboard navigation
• Running code
• Managing the kernel
• Entering code
• Markdown basics
• Embedded code
• LaTeX equations
• Assumptions
• Law of Reflection
• Fermat’s Principle
• Refractive Index
• Total Internal Reflection
• EXP3 Snippets – Refraction Explorer
• Deflection with one reflection
• Color of the rainbow
• Lens Systems
• Magnifying Glass
• Modern microscopy
• Chromatic Aberrations
• Spherical Aberration
• Astigmatism
• Field Curvature
• Distortions
• Postulates of Wave Optics
• Plane Waves
• Spherical Waves
• Interference
• Michelson Interferometer
• Mach-Zehnder Interferometer
• Sagnac Interferometer
• Double Slit Interference
• Thin Film Interference
• Multiple Wave Interference with Constant Amplitude
• Multiple Wave Interference with Decreasing Amplitude
• Fabry Perot Interferometer
• Newton Rings

Lecture 10:

• Huygens Principle
• Single Slit diffraction
• Circular Aperture

Lecture 11:

• Properties of the diffraction pattern
• Position of the Main Peaks
• Influence of the Slit Width
• Influence on the Slit Number
• Spectral resolution

Lecture 12:

• Fresnel Zones
• Fresnel Zone Plate
• Fresnel Approximation
• Fraunhofer Approximation
• Babinet’s Principle
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Plane Waves, Spherical Waves
• Linearly Polarized Waves
• Circularly Polarized Waves
• Elliptically Polarized
• Unpolarized Light
• Analyzing Polarization

Lecture 13:

• Energy Transport
• Momentum Transport and Radiation Pressure
• Rotating Mirror Method by Foucault
• Phase Method

Lecture 14:

• Dielectrics Polarization
• Magnetization
• Wave Equation and Refractive Index
• Boundary Condition
• Reflection/Refraction

Lecture 15:

• Transmission
• Intensities of Reflected and Transmitted Waves

Lecture 16:

Lecture 17:

• Light propagation
• Wave retarders

Lecture 18:

• Optical Activity
• Faraday Effect
• Drude Model
• Electric field of an accelerated charge
• Energy flow
• Oscillating Dipole

Lecture 19:

• Do atoms exist?
• Atoms and molecules
• The Structure of atoms
• The argue about the nature of light
• Hallwachs effect and photoelectric effect
• Franck-Hertz Experiment

Lecture 20:

• What we have seen during the last lecture
• Blackbody radiation and cavity radiation
• Spectral density of modes
• Stefan-Boltzmann Law
• Wien’s Displacement Law
• Wien’s distribution law or Wien approximation
• Rayleigh–Jeans law
• Planck’s law

Lecture 21:

• Rayleight-Jeans law as special case of Planck’s law
• Wien approximation as special case of Planck’s law
• Wiens displacement law as derived from Planck’s law
• Stefan-Boltzmann law as derived from Planck’s law

Lecture 22:

• The photoelectric effect
• The Compton effect
• Properties of photons
• Electron diffraction and de Broglie wavelength

Lecture 23:

• Plane waves
• Wave packets
• The statistical interpretation of matter waves

Lecture 24:

• Position-momentum uncertainty
• Energy-time uncertainty
• Spreading of wave packets

Lecture 25:

• Atomic sprectra
• The Bohr model
• About the stability of atoms
• Introducing the equation
• A potential barrier

Lecture 26:

• The case \(0 < E < E_0\)
• The case \(0 < E_0 < E\)
• The case \(E_0 < 0 < E\)
• The tunnel effect or quantum tunnelling

Lecture 27:

• … with infinite high walls
• … with finite high walls
• The harmonic oscillator

Lecture 28:

• The sperically symmetric Schrödinger eqution
• Solving the solution function \(\Phi \left( \varphi \right)\)
• Solving the solution function \(\Theta \left( \vartheta \right)\)
• Solving the solution function \(R \left( r \right)\)

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