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Final Exam: Tuesday, May 8 12:30-2:30 - Comprehensive (Chapters 2-10) Closed Book, Closed Notes, One CribSheet (two-sided) Allowed |
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Instructor: Dr. Kent Morrison
Office:
Phone: 277-0433
E-mail: lkm@unm.edu
To see me in my office, please make an appointment (email is best).
Class meeting times: Tuesday and Thursday, 11:00- 12:15; Physics and Astronomy, Room 5
Textbook: Optics by Hecht (4th Edition). The course will cover Chapters 2-11.
Teaching Assistant: Xiaomo Jing ( jingxm@unm.edu )
Pre-requisites: Calculus, Knowledge of Differential Equations, Complex Algebra, (Phys 160 and 161).
Assignments: Homework problem sets will be assigned on a regular basis throughout the semester, most likely one set per week. The overall HW grade will count as 20% of the final. Click here to go to the assignments page.
Tests: There will be two in-class, closed-book tests (each counting 20% of final grade) at regular intervals during the semester and a comprehensive final exam (40% of final grade) at the end.
Tentative Test Dates (subject to change): February 20th and April 10th. Last day to drop the course (without a grade) is February 23rd. Final exam is currently scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, 12:30-2:30.
Grading: The final grade is weighted
as follows:
Midterms: 20% each (40% total)
Final: 40%
Homework: 20%
Syllabus
1- Introduction (historical overview)
2- Waves (properties of harmonic waves, complex representation,
superposition,..)
3- Electromagnetic Theory of Light (basic laws, energy and
momentum, photons, radiation spectrum, light-matter interaction, dispersion,
..)
4- Propagation of Light (Fermat’s
principle, Fresnel laws of reflection and refraction, Maxwell’s
equations, ..)
5- Geometric Optics (spherical surfaces, thin lenses, mirrors,
imaging, prisms, fiberoptics, ray tracing, aberrations..)
6- Optical Systems (human eye, camera, telescopes,
microscopes,..)
7- Wave Optics (superposition, wave packets, pulses, group
velocity ..)
8- Polarization of Light (polarizers, birefringence,
waveplates, ..)
9- Interference (principles, interferometers, single and
multilayer films,..)
10- Diffraction (Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction,
implications for imaging systems..)
11- Fourier Optics