Biological Physics
Supramolecular Structures Lab
Lösche/Heinrich Group
Intermediate Optics
Weekly Activity Schedule and Reading Assignments
Both the detailed schedule and the exam dates may be slightly adjusted as we go along.
week |
dates |
dwnld |
topics (remarks) |
reading |
1 |
Aug-23 – 27 | course intro; laboratory skills | Introduction to Experimental Physics (part 1) |
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2 |
Aug-30 – Sept-03 | waves and wave motion; wave equation & solutions; phases; superposition; complex representation | W: ch. 2.1 – 2.3 |
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3 |
Sept-06 – 10 | Maxwell's equations; elmag. waves; energy and Poynting vector; photons | W: ch. 3.1 – 3.2 R: ch. 3.3 F: ch. 3.5 |
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4 |
Sept-13 – 17 | Dispersion; forced resonator; Rayleigh scattering; transmission in dense media; index of refraction | T: Lab 2 pre-lab excercises |
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5 |
Sept-20 – 24 | reflection law; Snell's law; Huygens' principle; Fermat's principle; Fresnel equations | W: ch. 4.3 – 4.5 R: ch. 4.6 F: — |
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6 |
Sept-27 – Oct-01 | (in-class exam I: Sept-29) evanescent waves; transmission in metals |
W: — |
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7 |
Oct-04 – 08 | geometrical optics: lenses and lens combinations | W: 5.1 – 5.2 R: — F: 5.3 |
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8 |
Oct-11 – 15 | optical instruments; prisms; aberrations | W: 5.7.5 – 5.7.7 R: 5.5 F: — |
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9 |
Oct-18 – 22 | chromatic aberration; optical fibers; | W: 5.6 |
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10 |
Oct-25 – 29 | superposition of waves; phase and group velocity; anharmonic, periodic waves and Fourier series |
W: 7.2 R: 7.3 F: — |
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11 |
Nov-01 – 05 | nonperiodic waves and Fourier integrals; coherence length; polarization; Jones vectors and Jones matrices | W: 7.4 R: — F: 8.1 – 8.2; 8.13 |
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12 |
Nov-08 – 12 | birefringence; polarization by scattering and reflection; retarders; optical activity | W: 8.4 – 8.5 R: 8.6 – 8.8 F: 8.10 – 8.12 |
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13 |
Nov-15 – 19 | interference; wave-splitting and amplitude-splitting interferometers | W: 9.1 – 9.3 R: 9.4 F: 9.5 |
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14 |
Nov-22 – 26 | no lectures |
(Thanksgiving) | lab class only |
15 |
Nov-29 – Dec-03 |
multiple-beam interference; Fabry-Perot interferometer; interference patterns as F.T.'s of apertures | W: 9.6 R: 10.1 F: 10.2 |
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