Individual course details
Study programme General Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Applied and Computer Physics
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Undergraduate Studies
Name of the course Laboratory of Physics 4
Professor (lectures) Nikola Šišović
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Vesna Kovačević
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 3 Status (required/elective) required
Access requirements Laboratory of Physics 1, 2 and 3 and Data Treatment in Physics
Aims of the course
Lab classes are designed to enable students to learn, by performing the individual experiments, how to use optical measuring instruments, along with the most common methods for measurement of optical physical quantities. Simultaneously, the methodology of experimental research and understanding of basic phenomena of geometrical and physical optics are in the focus of the lab work. 
  
Learning outcomes
Students are trained to apply independently optical measurement methods. Practical assessment of the measuring uncertainties, as well as the assessment of systematic and random errors and improvement of the analytic approach in planning and realization of experimental research.
Contents of the course
Lectures
1. Precautions and Safety in Optical Laboratory. 2. Interference and Diffraction of Light. 3. Diffraction grating 4. Refractive Index. 5. Measurement of Glass Refractive Index using Prism Method. 6. Black body radiation Laws. 6. Optical Pyrometry. 7. Diffuse Emission and Reflection (Lambert's Law). 8. Colorimetry. 9. Polarization of light - Naturally Optically Active Media. 10. Polarization of light - Faraday effect. 11. Photometry. 12. Inverse Square Law for Lightand the Joly Photometer. 14. Speed ​​of light in Air and Media.
Examples/ practical classes
Experimental exercises

 1. Interference and Diffraction (One Slit and Two Slits Case)
 2. Diffraction grating
 3. Measurement of Glass Refractive Index using Prism Method
 4. Black body radiation Laws
 5. Optical pyrometry
 6. Diffuse Emission and Reflection (Lambert's Law)
 7. Colorimetry
 8. Polarisation of Light - Natural Optically Active Media (Saccharimeter)
 9.Polarisation of Light - Induced Optically Active Media (Faraday Effect)
10. Photometry - Inverse Square Law for Light
11. Photometry - Joly photometer
12. Measurement of the speed of light in air and media
Recommended books
1 Практикум за експерименталне вежбе из Електромагнетизма и Физичке оптике, Физике II и Физике III, Физички факултет, Београд, 1991 (in serbian)
2 Предраг Искреновић, Одабрана поглавља и експерименталне вежбе из електромагнетизма, таласа и оптике,  Досије, Београд 2005 (in serbian)
3 TESS expert Handbook Laboratory Experiments Physics, Phywe, Germany
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5  
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
1 2      
Teaching and learning methods Experimental exercises (practical laboratory work and interactive mentoring).
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 40 experimental examination 40
practicals   oral examination 20
papers      
presentations