| Week |
Lect |
Date |
Topics |
Reading |
| 1 |
1-3 |
Jan 4-8 |
Pulses, waves, propagation speed, frequency, wavelength.
Power, intensity, superposition, standing waves, resonance.
Pressure waves, sound, decibels, standing waves.
|
15:3; 19:1-10
17:2; 20:1-4 |
| 2 |
4-6 |
Jan 11-15 |
Sound sources, beats and the Doppler effect for sound.
Maxwell's equations and confined electromagnetic waves.
Travelling electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations
HW1 due this week
|
20:5-7
40:1-4
41:1-3 |
| 3 |
7 |
Jan 18-22 |
Monday: Holiday.
Energy and momentum of electromagnetic waves.
EXAM 1 Friday Jan. 22
HW2 due this week
|
41:4-5 |
| 4 |
8-10 |
Jan 25-29 |
Speed of light and doppler effect for light.
Reflection and refraction of light; Huygens and Fermats principles.
Planar mirrors and interfaces, total internal reflection, light
pipes.
HW3 due this week.
|
42:1-3
43:1-3
43:4-6 |
| 5 |
11-13 |
Feb 1-5 |
Spherical mirrors and interfaces, objects and images.
Images for lenses.
Optical Instruments
HW4 due this week
|
44:1-2
44:3-4
44:5 |
| 6 |
14-15 |
Feb 8-12 |
Interference and coherence.
Interference and thin films
EXAM 2 Friday Feb 12
HW5 due this week
|
45:1-2
45:3-4 |
| 7 |
16-17 |
Feb 15-19 |
Monday:Holiday.
Michaelson Interferometer.
Single slit diffraction
HW6 due this week.
|
45:5-7
46:1-2 |
| 8 |
18-20 |
Feb 22-26 |
Diffraction from slit and cirular aperture.
Double slit interference and single slit diffraction combined.
Multiple slit interference and diffraction gratings
HW7 due this week.
|
46:3-4
46:5
47:1-3 |
| 9 |
21-22 |
March 1-5 |
Diffraction by crystal lattices and holograms.
Polarization by absorption and by reflection
EXAM 3 Friday March 5.
HW8 due this week.
|
47: 4-5
48:1-6 |
| 10 |
23-25 |
March 8-12 |
Polarization
Birefringence
Quantum Mechanics
HW9 due this week
|
48:5-7 |