Individual course details
Study programme			General physics
Chosen research area (module)
Nature and level of studies			Basic academic studies
Name of the course			Applied spectroscopy
Professor (lectures)			Prof. dr Ivan Dojcinovic
Professor/associate (examples/practical)			Nora Trklja
Professor/associate (additional)
ECTS		4	Status (required/elective)	Optional
Access requirements
Aims of the course	To familiarize students with the basics of spectroscopy in order to its application in spectroscopic qualitative and quantitative analysis, plasma diagnostics, etc. .
Learning outcomes	The adoption of the basic concepts related to the use of spectroscopy and spectroscopic apparatus for qualitative and quantitative analysis of samples, determining the composition of the plasma, electron concentration and plasma temperature. Acquiring the basics necessary for processing spectra, fitting the profile of the spectral lines, finding the basic characteristics of the line with the aim of determining the characteristics of samples. Preparing students for the practical use of spectroscopy to study the physical and chemical processes.
Contents of the course
Lectures	Characteristics of atomic and molecular spectroscopy; Fine and hyperfine structure of atomic spectra; Zeman and Stark effect; Glow and arc discharge, corona, spark, ICP; Lasers; Sources of X-ray radiation; Radiation detectors: photomultiplier, MCP, photodiode, OMA, CCD; The calibration of radiation detectors; Characteristics of monochromator with prisms and diffraction grating; Fabry - Perot interferometer; Michelson interferometer; Mah-Zender interferometer; The intensity of spectral lines; Einstein coefficients; Lifetime of the excited level; Metastabile states; The optical thickness of the spectral lines; Expansion and shift of spectral lines; Instrumental width; Doppler shift and Doppler broadening of spectral lines; Stark shift and broadening of the spectral lines; Continuous radiation; Bremsstrahlung and recombination radiation; Determining the plasma temperature; Measurement of electron concentration in plasma; Raman spectroscopy; Emission and absorption spectral analysis; Qualitative and quantitative spectral analysis; Fluorescent and phosphorescent spectral analysis; X-ray spectral analysis.
Examples/ practical classes	Practical classes:  Introduction to spectral devices and plasma sources. Experimental exercises : 1. Calibration of spectral devices ; 2. Determination of plasma temperature using the Boltzmann slope; 3. Determination of rotational temperature; 4. Determination of plasma temperature using Saha equation; 5. Determination of the electron concentration in the plasma by Stark line widths; 6. Determination of plasma temperature using the Doppler line width; 7. Determination of plasma velocities using the Doppler shift of spectral lines
Recommended books
1	Practical spectroscopy, by G.R. Harrison, R.C. Lord and J.R. Loofbourow, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall,1962
2	A.P. Thorne, Spectrophysics, Chapman and Hall & Science Paperbacks, London, 1974
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures	Examples&practicals		Student project	Additional
Teaching and learning methods	Lectures (theoretical elaboration of thematic units, practical examples, demonstration experiments), essay, experimental exercises.
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework		mark	examination	mark
coursework		20	written examination	40
practicals		10	oral examination	10
papers		20
presentations