THE UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

DOCTORAL STUDIES

FORENSIC ENGINEERING

Course:

Optical Devices in Forensics

Course Code: 112.5

ECTS: 10

Course Status:

Compulsory

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 5

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Research Study Project:

5

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Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Acquiring basic theoretical and practical knowledge on optical devices used in forensics.

Projected Outcome: Training for independent executing forensic analyses by means of optical instruments.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: Optical components of spectroscopic systems (light sources, detectors, optical filters, monochromators and spectrometres, interferometres), macroscopic and microscopic optical devices and systems, spectroscopic devices for forensics in the visible part of EM radiation (optical transmission and reflexion, luminescence, colorimetry), optical devices based on light dispersion (spectrometres for Brillouin and Rayleigh scattering), devices for infrared spectroscopy (light sources, optical components and detectors in infrared and far infrared part of spectrum, Fourier spectroscopy), devices for UV and X-ray spectroscopy (X-ray fluorescence, X-ray electronic spectroscopy), getting familiar with and using optical devices at the Institute for Physics, Belgrade.

Teaching Methods: lectures, modified lectures, mentoring, presentations, interactive lessons, seminars.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Seminar paper

30

Final Exam

70

Textbook/s

1. Дохчевић Митровић, З. Д. [идр.]. Оптичка својства наноматеријала, Београд: Академска мисао: Институт за физику, 2011

2. Kuzmany, H. Solid State Spectroscopy: An Introduction, Spinger, 2009

3. Hayes, W.: Loudon, R. Scattering of light by crystals, Mineola: Dover Publications, 2012