| Date |
Subject |
Homework
to be handed in |
| Monday, Jan. 23 |
Course information. How to describe waves. |
|
| Wednesday, Jan. 25 |
Complex
notation; adding waves |
|
| Monday, Jan. 30 |
Harmonic
montion from various means; damped harmonic oscillators |
French problems (Parlez-vous
anglais?) 1-3,4,5,6,7,9,11 and 2-1,2,4,5. Solutions. |
| Wednesday, Feb. 1 |
Driven and damped, driven harmonic oscillators | |
| Monday, Feb. 6 |
Energy in the
DDHO, and coupled oscillators |
French problems 3-1,2,5,14,15,16
and 4-3,4,9,10,13. Solutions. |
| Wednesday, Feb. 8 |
Coupled
oscillators: general properties, and with driving |
|
| Monday, Feb. 13 |
From 2 to N
oscillators |
French problems 4-16, 17 and
5-6, 7, 9. Solutions. |
| Wednesday, Feb. 15 |
Traveling
waves, and electromagnetic waves |
|
| Monday, Feb. 20 |
(Lecture given by Prof.
Urs Wiedemann) Notes on anomalous dispersion and refractive indices. |
|
| Wednesday, Feb. 22 |
(Lecture given by Prof.
Urs Wiedemann) Notes on the Poynting vector |
Homework
assignment. Solutions. Additonal solutions. |
| Monday, Feb. 27 |
Waves
traveling as rays |
|
| Wednesday, March 1 |
Refraction
and lenses (updated 4/13) |
|
| Monday, March 6 |
Homework review session with
Prof. Schneble |
|
| Wednesday, March 8 |
Exam 1:
through French chapter
7. Equation sheet. Exam
and solutions. Score
distribution (includes homework and lab graded by March 14). |
|
| Monday, March 13 |
Optics of the eye; matrix methods (Fowles Chap. 10) | |
| Wednesday, March 15 |
Matrix
methods and complex optical systems (Fowles Chap. 10) |
|
| Monday, March 20 |
Aberrations:
spherical and chromatic |
Homework 5: assignment with typed solutions. |
| Wednesday, March 22 |
Light
polarization; Jones
matrices; Fresnel equations (Fowles Chap. 2) |
|
| Monday, March 27 |
Fresnel
equations continued;
reflection; scattering; evanescent waves. |
Homework 6: assignment
with typed solutions, plus spreadsheet file
for problem 6-3. |
| Wednesday, March 29 |
Fresnel
equations for metals; Stoke's equations and reflectivity from a thin
glass slab |
|
| Monday, April 3 |
Huygens' construction, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, and Fourier analysis | |
| Wednesday, April 5 |
Fourier
analysis and diffraction
continued |
|
| Monday, April 10 |
Spring
break - no class. |
|
| Wednesday, April 12 |
Spring
break - no class. |
|
| Monday, April 17 |
Diffraction continued (lecture given by Dr. Andrew Stewart) | |
| Wednesday, April 19 |
Exam 2 |
Equation sheet.
Exam and solutions. Histogram of scores. |
| Monday, April 24 |
A laser
interlude; imaging described by Fourier optics |
|
| Wednesday, April 26 |
Visit to the labs of Prof.
Weinacht and Schneble. Meet in the classroom at the usual time;
they will then bring you to their labs in the basement of physics. |
|
| Monday, May 1 |
Diffraction
gratings; optical fibers |
|
| Wednesday, May 3 |
Holography; course
review |
|
| Tuesday, May 9 |
Problem-solving Q&A session,
10 am - noon, Physics D-122. |
Homework 7. |
| Monday, May 15 |
Final
Exam, 8:00-10:30 am, room P-112. |
Equation sheet.
Exam and solutions. Histogram of exam 3 scores. Histogram of course total scores.
Histogram of course grades. |
| Date |
Lab |
| Wednesday, Jan. 25 |
No lab, but read writeup on Error
Propagation |
| Wednesday, Feb. 1 |
Lab. 1: Resonance |
| Wednesday, Feb. 8 |
Lab. 2: Coupled
Oscillators |
| Wednesday, Feb. 15 |
Lab. 3: Speed
of Sound |
| Wednesday, Feb. 22 |
Lab. 4: Transmission
Line |
| Wednesday, March 1 |
Makeup lab. |
| Wednesday, March 8 |
Lab. 5: Polarization |
| Wednesday, March 15 |
Lab. 6: Michelson
Interferometer |
| Wednesday, March 22 |
Lab. 7: Fabry-Perot
Interferometer |
| Wednesday, March 29 |
Lab. 8: Diffraction |
| Wednesday, April 5 |
Lab. 9: Optical Instruments |
| Wednesday, April 12 |
Spring
break - no lab |
| Wednesday, April 19 |
Exam
- no lab |
| Wednesday, April 26 |
Lab. 10: Gaussian
Beams |
| Wednesday, May 3 |
Makeup lab. |
