The Physics Laboratory consists of experimental equipment suited for educational purposes and exercises the knowledge gained from physical courses held at the Faculty of Engineering. The experimental setups can be used for basic research in the fields of physics and engineering.
The Laboratory is mainly equipped with PHYWE scientific kits, whereas PHYWE has been developing, producing, supplying and installing experiments and solution systems for school education and scientific research.
The Laboratory gives the an opportunity of measurements in the fields of:
Mechanics
Basic set allowing the performance of experiments about the following topics:
- Physical quantities and characteristics
- Forces
- Elementary machines
- Liquids and gases
- Oscillations
Acoustics
Equipment set allowing the performance of experiments about the following topics:
- Generation, propagation and perception of sound
- Physical properties: Oscillations and waves
- Applications in the field of medicine, music, and everyday life
Electrostatics
Equipment set allowing the performance of experiments about the following topics:
- Contact electricity
- Electrostatic force
- Electrostatic induction
- Storing charge
- Insulators and conductors
- Electric fields
- Electric field strength
- Inhomogeneous electric fields (dipole fields)
- The electric conductor as an equipotential surface
- Electrostatic tip-shape effect
Optics
Basic set allowing the performance of experiments about the following topics:
- Propagation of light
- Mirrors
- Refraction
- Lenses
- The human eye
- Optical equipment
- Wave optics
- Interference
- Diffraction from unidimensional objects
- Diffraction from two-dimensional objects
- Resolving power
- Qualitative experiments on polarization
- Quantitative experiments on polarization
- Propagation of light
- Mirrors
- Refraction
- Colours
Optics/Atomic physics
Set to perform experiments in the field of
- optics and atomic/quantum physics,
- especially the wave particle duality of light and
- the interaction of light with matter:
- spectroscopy and electromagnetic emission spectras,
- diffraction
- interference,
- emission,
- absorption and
- fluorescence,
- light-solid and light-liquid interaction,
- determination of Planck‘s constant h‑band structures/gaps,
- solar cells and fotodiodes,
- properties of LEDs-polarization.
Atomic physics – X-ray Experiments
Basic set covering the fundamental principles and areas of applications of X-rays, e.g.
- fluoroscopy experiments and
- X-ray photography.
It can be extended for specific applications and topics by means of upgrade sets.
With the PHYWE X-ray experiments can be utilized in several different fields of education at universities, colleges and schools. The set permits custom applications in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, material sciences and geo sciences.
