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)
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)
Birefringence and Calcite (zipped PowerPoint)
Elliptical Polarization and Retardance(zipped 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 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 2- Retardance and Optical Activity
Fourier Optics and Spatial Filtering
Polarization 2- Fresnel Equations
Geometrical Optics 1- Thin Lenses
Geometrical Optics 2- Matrix Methods for Thin Lens Systems
Lab Write-up in pdf format: part 1 , part 2 , part 3
Geometrical Optics 3-Telephoto System
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
Animation of Quarter wave plate