Date
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Subject
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Homework
to be handed in |
Wednesday, Sep. 3
|
Lecture 1: Course information. How to describe waves.
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Monday, Sep. 8
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Lecture 2: Complex
notation; adding waves |
French problems (Parlez-vous
anglais?) 1-3,4,5,6,7,9,11 and 2-1,2,4,5. |
Wendesday, Sep. 10
|
Lecture 3: Harmonic
montion from various means; damped harmonic oscillators |
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Monday, Sep. 15
|
Lecture 4: Driven and
damped, driven harmonic oscillators |
French problems 3-1,2,5,14,15,16
and 4-3,4,9,10,13. |
Wednesday, Sep. 17
|
Lecture 5: Energy in the
DDHO, and coupled oscillators |
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Monday, Sep. 22
|
Lecture 6: Coupled
oscillators: general properties, and with driving |
French problems 4-16, 17 and
5-6, 7, 9.
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Wednesday, Sep. 24
|
Lecture 7: From 2 to N
oscillators |
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Monday, Sep. 29
|
Lecture
8: Traveling
waves, and electromagnetic waves |
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Wednesday, Oct. 1
|
No
classes - Rosh Hashanah
|
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Monday, Oct. 6
|
Exam
1 |
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Wednesday, Oct. 8
|
Lecture 9: Anomalous dispersion
and refractive indices.
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Monday, Oct. 13
|
Lecture 10: The Poynting vector
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Wednesday, Oct. 15
|
Lecture 11: Waves
traveling as rays |
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Monday, Oct. 20
|
Lecture 12: Refraction and lenses
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Wednesday, Oct. 22
|
Lecture 13: Optics of the eye;
matrix methods (Fowles Chap. 10)
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Monday, Oct. 27
|
Lecture 14: Matrix methods and
complex optical systems (Fowles Chap. 10)
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Wednesday, Oct. 29
|
Lecture 15: Aberrations:
spherical and chromatic
|
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Monday, Nov. 3
|
Lecture 16: Light
polarization; Jones
matrices; Fresnel equations (Fowles Chap. 2) |
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Wednesday, Nov. 5
|
Lecture 17: Fresnel
equations continued;
reflection; scattering; evanescent waves. |
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Monday, Nov. 10
|
Exam
2 |
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Wednesday, Nov. 12
|
Lecture 18: Fresnel
equations for metals; Stoke's equations and reflectivity from a thin
glass slab |
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Monday, Nov. 17
|
Lecture 19: Huygens'
construction, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, and Fourier analysis
|
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Wednesday, Nov. 19
|
Lecture 20: Fourier
analysis and diffraction
continued |
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Monday, Nov. 24
|
Lecture 21: Diffraction
gratings; optical fibers |
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Wedesday, Nov. 26
|
No
class - early start to Thanksgiving break.
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Monday, Dec. 1
|
Lecture 22: Holography
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Wednesday, Dec. 3
|
Lecture 23: Lasers
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Monday, Dec. 8
|
Lecture 24:
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Wednesday, Dec. 10
|
Lecture 25:
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Monday, Dec. 15
|
Review
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Wednesday, Dec. 17
|
Final
exam: 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm.
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