Course detail
Physics of Metrology
FSI-XMF-K Acad. year: 2019/2020 Summer semester
Metrology is a scientific and technical branch closely connected to the existence and development of another fields or areas of technical or another application character. These fields include mainly production, transport, telecommunication, health service, business etc. Metrology is used for a quantitative determination and stipulation of different effects, conditions and properties within these disciplines. The course is devoted to the explanation of the theoretical base of metrology, the so-called metrological physics. It includes description of the system of physical quantities and units; and selected physical laws, which form the principles of measurements. Moreover, in the frame of the course different methods of measurements will be discussed, including the techniques for minimising the influence of systematic errors that usually have physical merits.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Understanding of the physical phenomena of methods of measurements and the functional principles of measuring instruments.
Prerequisites
Completion of one course of university physics.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Teaching is suplemented by practical laboratory work.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Active participation in seminars and submitting written reports. The exam has a written and an oral part.
Aims
Explanation of the physical fundamentals of the metrology.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at seminars is required and checked by the tutor.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme M2I-K: Mechanical Engineering, Master's
branch M-KSB: Quality, Reliability and Safety, compulsory
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
9 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Metrology and its physical background.
Physical quantities. International system of units(SI).
Qualitative and quantitative relation between different physical quantities.
Solution of the problems of the scientific metrology by means of physics. Examples:
Defining the new quantities. Defining quantities more precisely.
Realisation of the physical quantities, research and development of etalons
Physical principles of the representative methods of measurement (resistance, induction, piezoelectric, thermoelectric, photoelectric, optical, radiation).
Development of the modern principles of measurement. (Metrological applications of lasers.)
Laboratory exercise
9 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Coherence length of the He-Ne laser.
Laser interferometer.
Application of lasers.
Laser microinterferometry.
Light polarisation.
Computation using the light.