PHYS2969
PHYSICS OF MEASUREMENT (Geomatic Engineering)
Session
1: 3 UC
Lecturers: Week
1 - 6 Dr Krystyna Wilk, Room 138A
Week 7 - 14 Dr Gail Box, Room 102C
Brief
Description:
This
course is for students of Geomatic Engineering. It aims
to provide students with an introduction to some of the
physical principles used in measuring instruments, and examples
of how they are applied. Topics covered include digital
electronics, analogue to digital conversion, transducers,
waves, remote sensing, geometrical and physical optics and
polarisation.
Assumed
Knowledge
PHYS1998
or PHYS1189
Detailed
Syllabus:
Basic
Digital Electronics (Week 1 & 2)
Logic
gates and flip-flops
Binary
counters
Shift
& latch registers
Transducers
(Week 3 & 4)
Displacement
- potentiometric, inductive, capacitive types
Optical
lever
Direct
digital output displacement - incremental, coded and absolute
digital
Accelerometers
and inertial guidance
Light
intensity measurements (Week 5)
Photo
diodes & CCD arrays
Analog
to digital conversion (Week 6)
A/D
and D/A conversion
Oscillations
and Waves (Week 7 & 8)
Simple
harmonic motion
Representation
of waves, wave velocity, group and phase velocity
Interference,
standing waves, resonance
Beats,
Doppler effect
Physical
Principles underlying Remote Sensing (Week 9 & 10)
Structure
and composition of the atmosphere
Absorption
spectrum and atmospheric window
Examples
of remote sensing applications
Atmospheric
corrections, atmospheric refraction and mirages
Formation
of the ionosphere
Propagation
of electromagnetic radiation through troposphere and ionosphere
Geometrical
and Physical Optics (Week 11)
Aberrations
in lenses
Interference
and diffraction, Rayleigh criterion
Anti
reflecting coatings, interference filters.
Optical
Instruments (Week 12 & 13)
Simple
magnifier, astronomical telescope, terrestrial telescope
Eyepieces,
erecting lenses and prisms (prism binoculars)
Reflecting
telescopes
Limitation
of beams, aperture and field stops
Brightness
of images
Image
resolution and pointing precision
Polarisation
& Revision (Week 14)
Types
of polarisation
Polarisers
and analysers, Malus Law
Methods
of polarisation
Quarter
and half wave plates
Photoelasticity
Assessment:
Mid-session: 35% (Covers
weeks 1 - 6)
Final
Exam: 45% (Covers weeks 7 - 14)
Laboratory: 20%
Note:
The mid-session will be held Tue 10 - 11, in OMB112. This
will be followed by the first lecture on Oscillations and
waves.)
Resources:
There
is no text book for this course.
Notes
will be provided.
First
year physics text is a useful reference for weeks 7 - 14.
Lectures:
Tuesday 11 - 1 OMB112
Tutorials:
Tuesday 10 - 11 OMB112
Laboratories: Tuesday
9 - 11 OMB 1 (Second Year Laboratory)
Laboratory
and Tutorial classes are held on alternate weeks. Detailed
schedule will be provided in the first lecture.
Further
Information
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