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PHYS 2P51
: Introduction to Classical and Modern Optics
Instructors: D.Crandles
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Lectures start from Monday Jan. 6, 2025
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This course uses Brightspace
to accept your completed homework and lab reports. For up-to-date information, announcements,
and course materials, monitor the Brightspace page.
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To help you plan, the important dates of the current academic year are listed here.
What Brock calendar entry says:
- Geometrical and wave optics, reflection, refraction, lenses, matrix methods, aberrations, gradient index phenomena including fibre optics, interference, coherence, holography, Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction and polarization
What do I need to bring into the course?
- In this course some simple derivatives, integrals and matrices will be used, so it is important that the
students feel comfortable with the calculus covered in Y1 mathematics courses. The course will build on the optics covered in first year Physics courses. As such, the prerequisites are: PHYS 1P21 or 1P91 (recommended); PHYS 1P22 or 1P92 (recommended); MATH 1P01 and 1P02, or MATH 1P05 and 1P06 (recommended).
Times and Locations
- Lectures MW 9.30-11 STH201
- Labs MCH308.
- Labs/Tutorials will begin week of Jan. 13
Textbook
- Introduction to Optics, 3rd edition, F.L. Pedrotti, L.M. Pedrotti and L.S. Pedrotti, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Course Fee
Important Dates Jan-Apr. 2025 (FW24D3)
- First day of classes: Jan. 6
- Last day of classes: Apr. 4
- Snow/Reading Days: Apr. 8
- Reading Week: Feb. 17-21
- Exams Apr. 9-24
- Deadline for withdrawal without academic penalty: March 6
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PHYS 2P51 |
Comments |
| Mobius Homework Assignments |
20% |
Approximately 1 per week. Mobius must be accessed from within Brightspace for grades to be recorded.
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| Term Test 1 |
15% |
During scheduled time slot Monday February 3rd. |
| Term Test 2 |
15% |
During scheduled time slot Monday March 10. |
| final exam |
30% |
You must obtain a grade of 40% or greater on the final exam in order to pass the course.
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| lab/tutorials |
10x2%=20% |
Both attending the lab/tutorial sessions and submitting the assigned work is required to complete a lab/tutorial. Due dates will depend
on lab schedule. |
This is an approximate list . As the course progresses, some of topics
may be removed and some others may get added.
- Chapter 1: Nature of Light
- Chapter 2: Geometrical Optics
- Chapter 3: Optical Instrumentation
- Chapter 4: Wave Equations
- Chapter 5: Superposition of Waves
- Chapter 6: Properties of Lasers
- Chapter 7: Interference of Light
- Chapter 8: Optical Inferometry
- Chapter 9: Coherence
- Chapter 10: Fraunhofer Diffraction
- Chapter 11: Fresnel Diffraction
- Chapter 15: Production of Polarized Light
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