Seminar on Solving Physical Problems - NFPL087
Title: Seminář řešení fyzikálních problémů
Guaranteed by: Department of Condensed Matter Physics (32-KFKL)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2021 to 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Tomáš Novotný, Ph.D.
Ing. Richard Korytár, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Karel Carva, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Artur Slobodeniuk, Ph.D.
Classification: Physics > Solid State Physics
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Annotation -
The seminar aims at developing the skills to use the knowledge gained during university studies. The physical problems are chosen in order to simulate real situations; they should be solvable without complicated and lengthy mathematical procedures. In English.
Last update: Turek Michal, RNDr. Mgr. (06.02.2007)
Course completion requirements -

The course is completed by obtaining a credit (no oral exam).

The condition for obtaining the credit is the successful completion of the final written test. Active participation in exercises is also taken into account. Each student has to solve a certain number of problems assigned by the instructor.

Last update: Novotný Tomáš, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (04.03.2024)
Syllabus -

Programme:

1. Classical mechanics of mass points and theory of elasticity - the Newton laws and the Hooke law in diverse situations.

2. Phonons in solids as collective excitations - vibrations of systems of mass points, the phonon dispersion law in one-dimensional models, localized phonon modes in systems with perturbed translational invariance.

3. Statistical properties of simple systems - classical and quantum electric and magnetic dipole moments interacting with an external field, interaction of the moments in a molecular-field approximation, susceptibility, specific heat.

Literature:

1. J. Kvasnica: Mechanika (Academia, 1988).

2. C. Kittel: Úvod do fyziky pevných látek (Academia, 1985).

Last update: Turek Michal, RNDr. Mgr. (06.02.2007)