Light and electromagnetic waves teaching in engineering education

摘要

Suggestions are made for physics laboratory exercises and the physics laboratory curricula are discussed for engineering majors where the properties of light and electromagnetic waves are studied in parallel. It is shown that there are important educational advantages of an experimental study of the properties of microwaves as an example of electromagnetic waves simultaneously with the properties of light: on the one hand, it enables visualisation of the properties of microwaves, and on the other, it provides evidence that light is an electromagnetic wave. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]