Number of hours
- Lectures 10.0
- Tutorials 10.0
ECTS
ECTS 2.0
Goal(s)
The course's objective is to accompany the students during their physics lab practicals, explaining the functioning of certain « black boxes » and presenting some of the different instruments present in the laboratories.
This is not a course on instrumentation: The aim is to present the fundamental physical concepts used to measure certain physical properties, e.g.: Superconductivity, NMR, semiconductors, fluids under low pressure, plasma, superfluid Helium, rest mass of neutrinos, ...
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Table of contents:
Fundamental measurement techniques
Digital voltmeter
Coherent detection
Squid
Vacuum technology
Introduction
Vacuum pumps
Measuring vacuum
Cryogenics
Physical properties of low temperatures
Cryogenic liquids
Very low temperatures
Generation and detection of X-rays
History
X-ray tubes
Synchrotron radiation
Detectors
Prerequisites
Oral exam