Physics 319 Optics

Course Web Pages

Course Notes and Presentations

Perspective, Parallax, and Focus (300 Meg zipped PowerPoint)

Fermat's Principle of Least Time (zipped PowerPoint)

Image Formation in Spherical Mirrors (ppt format)

Image Formation in Lenses (ppt format)

Total Internal Reflection (zipped ppt format)

Plane Waves and Maxwell Equations (zipped PowerPoint format)

Beats and Standing Waves (pdf format)

Phasors in Coherent and Incoherent Sums (zipped PowerPoint format)

Two beam interference-Infinitesimal Double Slits, (PowerPoint format)

Group Velocity (ppt format)

Stokes Relations and Multiple Beam Interference in Thin Films, (PowerPoint format)

Boundary Conditions, Fresnel Equations, Brewster's Angle (pdf format)

Fresnel Equations & Critical Angle, Fresnel Rhombs (pdf format)

Interference -Amplitude Splitting (Thin films, Michelson Interferometer, Newtons Rings) (PowerPoint format)

Birefringence and Calcite (zipped PowerPoint)

Elliptical Polarization and Retardance(zipped PowerPoint)

Optical Activity (PowerPoint)

Fourier Example, Plucked String (zipped PowerPoint)

Fraunhofer Diffraction-Single and Double Slit, Rectangular and Circular Apertures (PowerPoint)

Fresnel Diffraction- Rectangular Apertures and Knife-Edge (PowerPoint)

Thick Lenses and Matrix Methods For Optical Systems (zipped PowerPoint format)

Notes on Matrix Methods For Optical Systems (pdf format)

Old Test Problems for Test 1 (pdf format)

Old Test Problems for Test 2 (Chapter 18) (pdf format)

Old Test Problems for Test 3 (pdf format)

Equation Sheet for Tests (pdf format)

Online Laboratory Manual

Polarization 1-Malus' Law

Polarization II- Fresnel Equations

Spectroscopy

Geometrical Optics 1- Thin Lenses

Geometrical Optics 2- Matrix Methods for Thin Lens Systems

Geometrical Optics 3- Telephoto System

Diffraction 1- Single Slit Diffraction

Diffraction 2- Double Slit Diffraction

Michelson Interferometer

Birefringence 1: Calcite

Birefringence 2- Retardance and Optical Activity

Fourier Optics and Spatial Filtering

Polarization 1- Malus' Law

Lab Write-up in pdf format

Polarization 2- Fresnel Equations

Lab Write-Up in pdf format

Geometrical Optics 1- Thin Lenses

 Lab Write-up in pdf format

 Geometrical Optics 2- Matrix Methods for Thin Lens Systems

Theory of Matrix Methods

Lab Write-up in pdf format: part 1 , part 2 , part 3

Geometrical Optics 3-Telephoto System

Lab Write-up in pdf format

Maple Worksheet part 1

Maple Worksheet part 2

Birefringence 1- Calcite

Lab Write-up in pdf format

Animation of ordinary and extraordinary rays

Crystal and Rays in QTVR format

Theoretical prediction for deviation of e-ray

Birefringence 2- Retardance and Optical Activity

Lab Write-up in pdf format

Animation of Quarter wave plate

Diffraction  2- Double Slit Diffraction

Lab Writeup in pdf format