| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Master studies in physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | Theoretical and Experimental Physics | |||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Academic studies, Master degree | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Basics of Experimental Methods in Physics of Ionized Gases | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Srdjan Bukvić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | Miloš Skočić | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 10 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |||||||
| Access requirements | Physics of ionized gases or Theoretical Plasma Physics | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | This is a course with emphasis on studying basic experimental methods in physics of ionized gases | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Mastering modern experimental techniques and understending physical background of techniques common in physics of ionized gases. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Plasma in thermodynamic equilibrium (TE). Temperature in TE. Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE). Electron energy distribution function. Electron temperature. Excitation temperature. Electric discharge plasma. Other sorts of plasma. Plasma diagnostics. Continuous spectrum. Line Spectrum. Electron temperature determination based on continuous spectrum. Electron temperature determination based on relative intensities of spectral lines. Boltzmann plot. Saha- Boltzmann plot. Self-absorption issue. Inverse Abel transform. Electron density determination based on the shape of spectral lines. Laser interferometry based electron density determination. Doppler shift as a diagnostic tool. Optogalvanic spectroscopy. Laser induced fluorescence (LIF). LIF based determination of excited states density. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | Laboratory work: Introduction to basic properties of a modern spectrograph. Wavelength and radiometric calibration of the spectrograph. Spectral line intensity. Electron temperature estimation: Boltzmann plot method, Saha-Boltzman method. Check for existence of LTE. Radially symetric plasma source. Dopler shift in radially symetric plasma source. Abel inversion. Spectral line shape and interferometry in electron density estimation. | |||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | Venugopala M. Reactions under plasma conditions, Wiley – Interscience, 1990. | |||||||||
| 2 | J.A.M. van der MULLEN, EXCITATION EQUILIBRIA IN PLASMAS; A CLASSIFICATION, North-Holland 1989. | |||||||||
| 3 | A.A. Ovsyannikov, M.F. Zhukov Plasma Diagnostics, Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2005 | |||||||||
| 4 | T. Fujimoto, Plasma Spectroscopy, Clarendon press, Oxford, 2004. | |||||||||
| 5 | Selected review papers | |||||||||
| 6 | ||||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| 6 | 4 | |||||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | Lectures, Discussions, Writen assignments, Seminar, Laboratory demonstrations | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 20 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | 20 | oral examination | 40 | |||||||
| papers | ||||||||||
| presentations | 20 | |||||||||