Instructor:
Robert W. Gammon,
Room 1100, IPST Building
5-4791
rgammon at umd.edu
Office Hours: Thursday TBD or by appointment
Teaching Assistants: | Section 0201 - Nightvid Cole
email: ncole1 at umd.edu Section 0301 - Shantanu Debnath email: sdebnath at umd.edu |
Teaching Labs Coordinators: | Mr. Tom Baldwin Room |
Mr. Allen R. Monroe |
Required books:
The required text is Hecht, OPTICS, 3rd or 4th Edition
and 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
(check the item number via the web) has them cheaper.
Guidelines for Written Lab Reports
Quick Reference Manual for LoggerPro3
University of St. Andrews (Scotland), PSST program that does ray diagrams
Reading Guidance:
by 25-Jan Hecht 13.1.3, The Laser, pp.
589-597
by 1-Feb For Homework problems, read/review Hecht Chap 2
Wave Motion and read Hecht
3.2-3.3.3, Electromagnetic Waves, Energy and Momentum, Photons. For
Lab 1, read Hecht 4.3,
Reflection (note picture in upper right of p. 100), 4.4, 4.4.1
Refraction.
by 8-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 15-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 22-Feb For lecture and lab, read Hecht 5.7.1 The Eye through accomodation,
5.7.6 The
Camera.
by 1-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 22-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 5-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 12-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 19-April For lecture and lab, read/review Hecht 10.2.8 on diffraction
gratings and 3.4.4 on
atomic emissions of light.
Homework Assignments (subject to change ) |
Homework #1 Due 2/1 - is posted on ELMS |
Homework #2 Due 2/8- " |
Homework #3 Due 2/22 - " |
Homework #4 Due 3/8 - " |
Homework #5 Due 3/29 - " |
Homework #6 Due 4/12 - " |
Homework
Solutions: will be posted on ELMS
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