Study Guide

Objective

After completing the course the student can:
- read optical characteristics
- recognise physical possibilities and limitations
- use measuring equipment
- do suitable measuring arrangement for a problem and complete the measurements
- estimate uncertainty of measurements and determine uncertainty for the results in simple cases
- make and analyse graphical presentations
- keep a laboratory notebook
- report results orally and in writing
- work safely at a laboratory
- work safely with different kinds of radioactive radiation
- handle waste developed in laboratory

Content

- optics
- safety at laboratory work
- physical modeling
- radioactive radiation
- measuring, evaluating errors of measurements, processing and analyzing results
- graphical presentations and reporting
- handling laboratory waste

Materials

Inkinen, Manninen, Tuohi, Momentti 2, Otava
Materials in LMS

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises and laboratory work

International connections

Active teaching methods, individual and group tasks

Completion alternatives

No alternatives

Student workload

5 ECTS = 134h of student´s work including
- 10h theory lessions
- 16h laboratory work
- 108h independent work

Content scheduling

- optics
- safety at laboratory work
- physical modeling
- radioactive radiation
- measuring, evaluating errors of measurements, processing and analyzing results
- graphical presentations and reporting
- handling laboratory waste

Further information

Software: MS Excel, MS Word, MATLAB

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Less than 40% of the scores or partly done course.