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Schedule
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Week | Date | Lecture | Reading | Lab | Homework | ||||
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1 |
Monday
8/28/2017 |
Geometric Optics, Fermat's Principle | Hecht 4.3-4.5 | ||||||
Tuesday
8/29/2017 |
No lab | ||||||||
Wednesday
8/30/2017 |
Thin Lenses | Hecht 5.1-5.2 | No lab | ||||||
Thursday
8/31/2017 |
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Friday
9/1/2017 |
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2 |
Monday
9/4/2017 |
Labor Day Holiday | |||||||
Tuesday
9/5/2017 |
Lab #1: Telescope or Aberrations | ||||||||
Wednesday
9/6/2017 |
Extended Images, Magnification | Hecht 5.2-5.4 | Lab #1, cont. | ||||||
Thursday
9/7/2017 |
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Friday
9/8/2017 |
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3 |
Monday
9/11/2017 |
Multi-Lens Systems, the Compound Microscope | Hecht 5.7 | ||||||
Tuesday
9/12/2017 |
Lab #2: Aberrations or Telescope | ||||||||
Wednesday
9/13/2017 |
Matrix Methods, Aberrations | Hecht 6.1-6.3 | Lab #2, cont. | HW #3; Due 09/20/2017 | |||||
Thursday
9/14/2017 |
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Friday
9/15/2017 |
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4 |
Monday
9/18/2017 |
Wave Mechanics, Superposition, Spherical Waves | Hecht 2.1-2.8 | ||||||
Tuesday
9/19/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
9/20/2017 |
Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic Waves | Hecht 3.1-3.2 | Lab: Your choice | HW #4 Due: 9/27/2017 11:59pm | |||||
Thursday
9/21/2017 |
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Friday
9/22/2017 |
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5 |
Monday
9/25/2017 |
Energy and Momentum in Wave Mechanics | Hecht 3.3 | ||||||
Tuesday
9/26/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
9/27/2017 |
Radiation | Hecht 3.4-3.5 | Lab: Your choice | HW #5 Due:10/04/2017 at 11:59pm | |||||
Thursday
9/28/2017 |
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Friday
9/29/2017 |
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6 |
Monday
10/2/2017 |
Light in Matter, the Refractive Index, Optical Dispersion |
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Tuesday
10/3/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
10/4/2017 |
Rayleigh Scattering, Larmor Fomula, the Blue Sky | Hecht 3.5 | Lab: Your choice | HW #6 Due:10/11/2017 at 11:59pm | |||||
Thursday
10/5/2017 |
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Friday
10/6/2017 |
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7 |
Monday
10/9/2017 |
Reflection from an Interface, Fresnel Formulas | Hecht 4.1, 4.2, 4.6 | ||||||
Tuesday
10/10/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
10/11/2017 |
Fourier Analysis, Wave Packets | Hecht 7.1-7.4 | Lab: Your choice | HW #7 Due:10/18/2017 at 11:59pm | |||||
Thursday
10/12/2017 |
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Friday
10/13/2017 |
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8 |
Monday
10/16/2017 |
Polarization, Optical Birefringence | Hecht 8.1-8.4 | ||||||
Tuesday
10/17/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
10/18/2017 |
Creating Polarized Light | Hecht 8.4, 8.5, 8.6 | Lab: Your choice | There is no homework. Exam preparation week. | |||||
Thursday
10/19/2017 |
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Friday
10/20/2017 |
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9 |
Monday
10/23/2017 |
Phase Retarders, Stokes Parameters | Hecht 8.5, 8.6, 8.13 | ||||||
Tuesday
10/24/2017 |
No lab | ||||||||
Wednesday
10/25/2017 |
Midterm Exam and Solutions | No lab | HW #8 Due:11/01/2017 at 11:59pm | ||||||
Thursday
10/26/2017 |
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Friday
10/27/2017 |
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10 |
Monday
10/30/2017 |
Young's Interference, the Michelson Interferometer | Hecht 9.1-9.4 | ||||||
Tuesday
10/31/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
11/1/2017 |
Thin film interference, the Fabry-Perot Interferometer | Hecht 9.1-9.5 | Lab: Your choice | HW #9 Due:11/08/2017 at 11:59pm |
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Thursday
11/2/2017 |
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Friday
11/3/2017 |
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11 |
Monday
11/6/2017 |
Fabry-Perot Interferometer (continued) | Hecht 9.6-9.8 | ||||||
Tuesday
11/7/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
11/8/2017 |
Kirchhoff Theory, Fraunhofer Diffraction | Hecht 10.1, 10.2, 10.4 | Lab: Your choice | HW #10 Due:11/15/2017 | |||||
Thursday
11/9/2017 |
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Friday
11/10/2017 |
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12 |
Monday
11/13/2017 |
No lecture | |||||||
Tuesday
11/14/2017 |
Lab: Your choice | ||||||||
Wednesday
11/15/2017 |
Nonlinear Optics (guest lecturer) | Hecht 13.4 | Lab: Your choice | HW #11 Due:11/29/2017 | |||||
Thursday
11/16/2017 |
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Friday
11/17/2017 |
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13 |
Monday
11/20/2017 |
Fall break | |||||||
14 |
Monday
11/27/2017 |
Fresnel Diffraction, the Zone Plate | Hecht 10.3 | ||||||
Tuesday
11/28/2017 |
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Wednesday
11/29/2017 |
Fourier Methods in Diffraction | Hecht 11.1-11.3 | HW #12 Due:12/07/2017 at 9:30 am | ||||||
Thursday
11/30/2017 |
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Friday
12/1/2017 |
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15 |
Monday
12/4/2017 |
Partial Coherence | Hecht 13.1 | ||||||
Tuesday
12/5/2017 |
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Wednesday
12/6/2017 |
Energy Quantization, Photons | Hecht 13.1; 13.1.1 | HW #13 Due:12/13/2017 | ||||||
Thursday
12/7/2017 |
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Friday
12/8/2017 |
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16 |
Monday
12/11/2017 |
Lasers | Hecht 13.1.2; 13.1.3; 13.1.4 | ||||||
Tuesday
12/12/2017 |
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Wednesday
12/13/2017 |
Holography | Hecht 13.3 | |||||||
Thursday
12/14/2017 |
Reading Day | ||||||||
Friday
12/15/2017 |
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17 |
Tuesday
12/19/2017 |
Final Exam | Loomis 136; Start time 1:30 pm; End time 4:30 pm |