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https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/BV002FEN
Anotation:
Lessons contain selected parts of physics for students of electric power engineering: Physical principles of gas discharges - glow, arc, spark and corona discharges and their applications. The students become acquainted with methods for nuclear fission and fusion energy generation. A part of the course is two excursions in Laboratories of Czech Academy of Sciences.
Study targets:
Today state of the knowledges and view to future
Content:
Lessons contain selected parts of physics for students of electric power engineering: Physical principles of gas discharges - glow, arc, spark and corona discharges and their applications. The students become acquainted with methods for nuclear fission and fusion energy generation. A part of the course is two excursions in Laboratories of Czech Academy of Sciences.
Course outlines:
| 1. | | Introduction - importance of physics for technology. |
| 2. | | Principles of hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. |
| 3. | | Electromagnetic waves, their specification, properties, spectral analysis. |
| 4. | | Properties of electric discharges - glow discharge, corona. |
| 5. | | Electric spark and arc. |
| 6. | | Physics of high density of energy. |
| 7. | | Controlled thermonuclear fusion. |
| 8. | | Stability of atomic nuclei and resulting effects for energetics. |
| 9. | | Physics of fission reactors. |
Exercises outline:
| 1. | | Simple calculations in hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. |
| 2. | | Rise of the magnetic field of the Earth. |
| 3. | | Measuring of electromagnetic spectrums. |
| 4. | | Lightning, ball lightning. |
| 5. | | Magnetic pinches, X-ray lasers. |
| 6. | | Fusion reactors. |
| 7. | | Excursion: power iodine laser PALS. |
| 8. | | Excursion: a tokamak. |
| 9. | | Stability calculations for various nuclei. |
| 10. | | Calculations of fission reactions. |
Literature:
| 1. | | T.G.Gowling, M.A.Phil: Magnetohydrodynamics (Adam Hilger 1976) |
| 2. | | Presentaton in lectures |
Requirements:
Written work of selected topics.
Keywords:
Electric discharges in gases, nuclear fusion and its characteristic in laboratories, radiation of gases.
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