Instructor:
Robert W. Gammon,
Room 1100, IPST Building
5-4791
rgammon at umd.edu
Office Hours: Tues. 3-4 PM
| Teaching Assistants: | Jared Evans |
| Teaching Labs Coordinators: | Mr. Allen R. Monroe |
| Mr. Tom Baldwin |
Required and recommended books:
The required text is Hecht, OPTICS, 4th Edition and recommended is Taylor,
INTRO. TO ERROR ANALYSIS and/or Bevington, DATA REDUCTION + ERROR ANAL. FOR PHYS. SCI.
Both Taylor and Bevington can be any edition. In addition you will need (ultimately)
two lab notebooks, so that you have one to work in while the other is graded. Purchase the
quad-ruled coop-style notebooks (brown covers) but avoid those with carbon paper. The Book
Exchange and campus bookstore usually stocks these (though you may have to ask for help to
find them) but Staples has them cheaper.
Guidelines for Written Lab Reports
University of St. Andrews (Scotland), PSST program that does ray diagrams
| Homework Assignments |
| Homework #1 Due 2/7 - Hecht 2.18, 2.40, 2.44, 3.4, 3.13, 3.23 |
| Homework #2 Due 2/14 - Hecht 4.9, 4.11, 4.35, 4.46, 4.48, 4.57 |
| Homework #3 Due 2/28 - Hecht 5.10, 5.14, 5.33, 5.40, 5.62, 5.84 |
| Homework #4 Due 3/14 - Hecht 8.12, 8.16, 8.29, 8.43, 8.72 |
| Homework #5 Due 4/4 - Hecht 7.35, 7.44 (see soln. to 7.39), 9.3, 9.17, 9.36, 9.43 |
| Homework #6 Due 4/18 - Hecht 10.7, 10.8, 10.11, 10.13, 10.28, 10.33 |
Homework Solutions:
HW1
HW2
HW3
HW4
Reading Guidance:
by 31-Jan Hecht 13.1.3, pp. 589-597
by 7-Feb For Homework problems, read/review Hecht Chap 2 Wave Motion and
read Hecht
3.2-3.3.3.
For Lab 1, read Hecht 4.3 Reflection (note picture in upper right of p. 100),
4.4, 4.4.1 Refraction.
by
14-Feb For homework and lecture, read Hecht 4.6 Electromagnetic Approach (i.e.
Electromagnetic waves): 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.3, 4.7 Total Internal
Reflection, 4.7.1, and 4.10
on the Stokes treatment of reflection/transmission.
by 21-Feb For lecture and lab, read Hecht 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.2.2 (focus position
derived by Fermat's
Principle. Prob. 5.5
describes the conventional ray tracing derivation of Eq. (5.8)),
5.2.3 Thin Lens
Equation, 5.4, 5.4.1, 5.4.3,
5.7 Optical System Introduction, 5.7.3,
5.7.4, 5.7.5, 5.7.7.
by 28-Feb For lecture and lab, read Hecht 5.7.1 The Eye through accomodation,
5.7.6 The
Camera.
by 7-Mar For homework, lecture and lab, read Hecht 8.1, 8.1.1, 8.1.2,
8.1.3,8.1.4, 8.2, 8.2.1,
8.3.3, 8.5.1, 8.6,
8.6.1, {8.13.2, 8.13.3, and Table 8.5 on p. 375, on Jones vectors and
Jones
matrices}.
by 28-Mar For homework, lecture and lab, read/review: Hecht 7, 7.1, 7.1.1-7.1.4,
read Hecht: 7.3
all, 7.4 all, 9.4,
9.4.1. Particularly for Lab4: read Hecht: 9 intro., 9.1, 9.4.2.
by 11-April For homework, lecture and lab, read/review Hecht {10.1, 10.1.1,
10.1.2, 10.1.3} is
background, {10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4 are the things you will
measure in the
lab, {10.2.5, 10.2.6} gives background on resolution of
microscope/telescope limited by
diffraction.
by 18-April For homework, lecture and lab, read/review Hecht 11 on Fourier
Optics - a powerful
way to look at diffraction problems, 11.1, 11.2, 11.2.2, 11.3.3 through 3 slits.
by 25-April For lecture and lab, read/review Hecht 10.2.8 on diffraction
gratings and 3.4.4 on
atomic emissions of light.
Last update 02/22/08 02:42 PM