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Experiments in physics 1

2024/2025
Programme:
Medical Physics, Second Cycle
Year:
1 year
Semester:
first
Kind:
optional
ECTS:
4
Language:
slovenian
Hours per week – 1. semester:
Lectures
0
Seminar
0
Tutorial
3
Lab
0
Prerequisites

Regular enrolement

Content (Syllabus outline)

In this course the students have the choice of the selecting three of the following lab exercises:
• Measurement of permittivity of liquid crystals and ceramics
• Optical interferometry
• Optical correlation spectroscopy
• Multi-wire proportional chamber
• Measurement of weak interaction coupling constant through a measurements of muon decay time
• The contrast in MRI
• PIXE (proton induced X-ray emission)
• Tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction
• Reactor: pulse experiment
• Hertzsprung-Russel diagram

Readings

• A. Likar, Fizikalna merjenja I in II
• W.R. Leo, Techniques for Nuclear and Particle Physics Experiments, Springer, 1987.
• B.P. Roe, Probability and statistics in experimental physics, Springer 1992.
• Specialna literatura ob posameznih vajah.

Objectives and competences

Students learn about basic experimental methods of physics.
Subject-specific competencies: Knowledge, understanding and practical hands-on experience in complex measurements in various fields physics. A large fraction of the lab exercises are carried out at the J. Stefan Institute.

Intended learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:
Acquire practical knowledge in the fields of experimental physics and instrumentation.
Application:
Ability to work with complex experimental equipment. Understanding critical parameters in experimentation in physics.
Reflection:
A critical assessment of an experimental apparatus, its accuracy and reliability.
Transferable skills:
Ability to work on a complex apparatus, data acquisition, and its collection and analysis. Ability to determine the accuracy of the measurement.

Learning and teaching methods

Lectures, laboratory excercises, analysis of measurements.

Assessment

Reports on 3 lab excercises.
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

Lecturer's references

Hribernik N, et al. Quantitative imaging biomarkers of immune-related adverse events in immune-checkpoint blockade-treated metastatic melanoma patients : a pilot study. European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 2022
Studen, A., Clinthorne, N. System resolution versus image uncertainty for positron emission tomography scanners. Journal of Medical Imaging. 2022.
Skoblar Vidmar M et al. The value of FET PET/CT in recurrent glioma with a different IDH mutation status [Elektronski vir] : the relationship between imaging and molecular biomarkers. International journal of molecular sciences 2022.