Date
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Subject
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Homework
to be handed in |
Wednesday, Sep. 3
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Course
information. Lecture 1: How to
describe waves. |
French problems (Parlez-vous
anglais?) 1-3,4,5,6,7,9,11 due Wednesday, Sep. 10. Solutions.
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Monday, Sep. 8
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Lecture 2:
Complex
notation; adding waves; harmonic motion from various means; damped
harmonic motion. Demonstration of beat frequencies while tuning a
guitar using harmonics (audo file): .mp4,
.wav. |
French problems 2-1,2,4,5 and
3-1,2,5 due Monday, Sep. 15. Solutions.
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Wendesday, Sep. 10
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Lecture 3:
The
driven harmonic oscillator, and the damped, driven harmonic oscillator |
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Monday, Sep. 15
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Lecture 4:
Coupled
oscillators: general properties, and with driving |
French problems 3-14,15,16 and
4-3,4,9,10,13 due Monday, Sep. 22. Solutions.
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Wednesday, Sep. 17
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Lecture 5:
Wave
travel directions, velocities, Maxwell's equations, and the speed of
light
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Monday, Sep. 22
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Lecture 6:
Waves
in linear media, and the refractive index |
French problems 4-16, 17 and
5-6, 7, 9. Plus: A) show how to obtain Eq. 10 from Eq. 6 on Lecture 7. B) show how to obtain Eq. 12 from Eq. 6
on Lecture 7. C) Using Eq. 10 from Lecture 7, estimate the refractive index for air
assuming that it is composed entirely of nitrogen (look up the density
of air). Due Monday, Sep. 29. Solutions.
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Wednesday, Sep. 24
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Lecture 7:
Follow-up
from Lecture 6; plasma frequency; refractive index for visible light
and for X rays; phase and group velocities, and dispersion
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Monday, Sep. 29
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Lecture
8: From waves to ray optics; refraction and Snell's
law |
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Wednesday, Oct. 1
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No
classes - Rosh Hashanah
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Monday, Oct. 6
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Exam
1. Exam and solutions. Spring 2006 exam 1. Equation
sheet. Exam 1 histogram.
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Wednesday, Oct. 8
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Lecture 9:
Refraction and lenses; optics of the eye; matrix methods (Fowles
chapter 10) |
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Monday, Oct. 13
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Lecture 10:
Matrix methods and
complex optical systems (Fowles Chap. 10). Handout. Maple 12 worksheets: thin_lens_matrix.mw, thick_lens_matrix.mw.
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Wednesday, Oct. 15
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Lecture 11:
Polarization and Jones matrices; aberrations.
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Homework 5 assignment
due. Solutions.
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Monday, Oct. 20
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Lecture 12: Optics of the Hubbel
Space Telescope (Prof. Fred Walter)
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Wednesday, Oct. 22
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Lecture 13:
Adaptive optics. Chromatic
aberrations and their correction. Fresnel equations.
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Homework 6 assignment
due. Solutions.
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Monday, Oct. 27
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Lecture 14:
Fresnel
equations and scattering (Fowles Chap. 2) |
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Wednesday, Oct. 29
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Lecture 15:
Evanescent
waves. Stoke's equations and
reflectivity from a thin glass slab.
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Monday, Nov. 3
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Lecture 16:
Fresnel equations for metals. Introduction to Fresnel and
Fraunhofer diffraction. |
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Wednesday, Nov. 5
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Lecture 17:
Diffraction and interference.
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Homework 7 due. Solutions.
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Monday, Nov. 10
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Exam
2. Equation sheet. Spring 2006 exam. Fall 2008 exam and solutions. Exam 2 histogram. Correlation of exam total and homework
total.
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Wednesday, Nov. 12
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Lecture 18:
Diffraction and interference.
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Monday, Nov. 17
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Lecture 19:
Diffraction, Rayleigh resolution, and wavefield propagation.
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Wednesday, Nov. 19
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Lecture 20:
wavefield propagation, diffraction gratings. |
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Monday, Nov. 24
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Lecture 21:
fiber optics, lasers
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Wedesday, Nov. 26
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Homework discussion
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Homework 8 due. Solutions.
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Monday, Dec. 1
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Lecture 22: optical
fiber communications, lithography
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Wednesday, Dec. 3
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Lecture 23: nonlinear
optical devices; coherence,
holography, and phase retrieval
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Monday, Dec. 8
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Lecture 24: visit to Laser Teaching Center (Prof.
Jacobsen
gone)
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Wednesday, Dec. 10
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Lecture 25: review
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Homework 9 due. Solutions.
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Wednesday, Dec. 17
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Final
exam: 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm.
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Equation sheet.
Spring 2006 exam. Fall 2008 exam. Histogram of Exam 3 scores. Histogram of weighted total scores.
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