
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.
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- The Birth of Quantum Mechanics
- Stefan-Boltzmann Law
- Wien’s Displacement Law
- Wien’s distribution law or Wien approximation
- Rayleigh–Jeans law
- Planck’s law
- 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
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