Physics 471 - Winter Semester 2008
Introductory Information:
Instructor: John Colton, N335 ESC, 422-3669. Office hrs: T Th 3-4 pm, in N335 ESC
Main TA: Ryan Tanner, quantumleap42@gmail.com. Lab/office hours: M 4-6 pm W 5-7 (changed!), in/near S415 ESC.
Other TA: Adam Hall, adam.h.mail@gmail.com. Lab/office hours: M 2-3 pm, in/near S415 ESC.
Change: I have decided not to cover section 7.7. So please change the reading assignment for Feb 29 to be just sections 7.5-7.6.
Change: There's a small change on dates on the syllabus. I will be out of town March 12 and March 14 instead of Mar 10 and Mar 12. We're going to switch the topics covered on the 10th and the 12th:
Mar 10: Topic = Review (Ch 5-8). No reading assignment.
Mar 12: Topic = Rays. Reading assignment is 9.1 - 9.3.
Some major changes to schedule for chapters 10 and 11. Note in particular the reading assignment changes!
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March |
17 Complex imaging |
18 End Exam 2 (late fee after 6 pm) Homework 18 |
19 Aberrations |
20 Homework 19 |
21 Diffraction |
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24 Fraunhofer
Approx. & Aperture functions |
25 Homework 20 |
26 Array Theorem, Gratings, Spectrometer |
27 Homework 21 |
28 Cylindrical Apertures |
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31 Diffraction through lens; Gaussian beams |
1 Homework 22 |
2 Discontinuance deadline Gaussian Beams, cont. |
3 Homework 23 |
4 Interferogram/Hologram |
Homework Assignments:
due 1/10/08: hw 1.doc
due 1/15/08: hw 2.doc
due 1/17/08: hw 3.doc
due 1/22/08: hw 4.doc
due 1/24/08: hw 5.doc
due 1/29/08: hw 6.doc
due 1/31/08: hw 7.doc
due 2/5/08: hw 8.doc (Due-date changed! Now due 2/6/08 by 6 pm)
due 2/12/08: hw 9.doc (Changed on 2/7/08--the old problem 1 has been moved to the next assignment)
due 2/14/08: hw 10.doc
due 2/19/08: hw 11.doc (Due-date changed! Now due 2/20/08 by 6 pm)
due 2/21/08: hw 12.doc
due 2/26/08: hw 13.doc
due 2/28/08: hw 14.doc
due 3/4/08: hw 15.doc
due 3/6/08: hw 16.doc
due 3/11/08: hw 17.doc
due 3/18/08: hw 18.doc
due 3/20/08: hw 19.doc
due 3/25/08: hw 20.doc Important: There's an error in problem 1 of that assignment! (Discovered 3/24/08.) Here's the fixed version of HW 20: hw 20 - fixed.doc
due 3/27/08: hw 21.doc Important: There's a typo in problem 1 of that assignment! (Discovered 3/26/08.) The inequality should read: –L/2 < x' < L/2 instead of –p/2 < L < p/2
due 4/1/08: hw 22.doc
due 4/3/08: hw 23.doc
due 4/8/08: hw 24.doc
due 4/10/08: hw 25.doc Important: There's a typo in problem 1 of that assignment. (Discovered 4/9/08). The equation for Plank's frequency spectrum should have a "c^3" in the denominator, not just a "c".
due 4/15/08: hw 26.doc
Special Reading Assignments:
for 1/16/08: Complex numbers summary
also for 1/16/08: Driven/Damped Harmonic Oscillator
for 2/27/08:
http://www.jhu.edu/~signals/convolve/index.html - play around with the convolution applet to develop "convolution intuition".
for 4/11/08:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision - only the paragraphs before the "Color in the human brain" heading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space - only the paragraphs before the "Experimental results—the CIE RGB color space" heading
Class Notes: (Use at your own risk! They are not guaranteed and the handwritten ones were written for my benefit, not yours.)
Reflectance vs wavelength for some metals (graph from day 7; rest of day 7 notes coming later)
viewgraphs from day 10:
circularly polarized light.doc (in color!)
day 13: review for optics exam 1.doc (includes a listing of which equations you need to memorize vs which ones you don't!)
notes - day 13.pdf (same as the above Word document, but includes my handwritten equations)
start of post-exam 1 material:
notes - day 22.pdf (Reading quiz only; for additional day 22 class notes, see the handouts: Dirac delta function.doc and Convolutions.doc)
day 27: review for optics exam 2.doc (sorry, just the Word document--no scan of review with my handwritten notes)
start of post-exam 2 material:
notes - days 28 and 29.pdf - These are the "Colton notes" for the two days that Bret Hess taught the class: what I would have taught had I not been out of town.
notes - days 30 and 31.pdf - For day 31, just the quiz is in the pdf file. The rest of the day 31 notes are in this file: Aberrations.doc
notes - days 38 and 39.pdf - For day 38, just the quiz is in the pdf file. The rest of the day 38 notes are in this file: interferograms and holography.doc
notes - day 40.pdf - The last two pages of these notes are things we didn't talk about in class, but which might be interesting to some of you. The second to last page is some comments on that somewhat-confusing-looking graph for semiconductors, emitted wavelengths vs. lattice constant. The last page is my notes on longitudinal cavity modes, which we didn't have time to talk about. You won't be tested on the info. The most important item is that, approximating the cavity as a Fabry-Perot interferometer, you can show that only an integral number of half-wavelengths can fit inside the cavity. Thus lambda = 2L/n (L = length of cavity, n = integer); this puts a serious constraint on which wavelengths within the overall potential laser emission can in fact lase.
day 42: review for optics exam 3 (final).doc
Grades:
Optics grades, 18 Jan 2008.doc
Optics grades, 26 Jan 2008.doc
Optics grades, 15 Feb 2008.doc
Optics grades, 23 Feb 2008.doc
Optics grades - 10 Mar 2008.doc
Optics grades - 21 Mar 2008.doc
Optics grades - 3 Apr 2008.doc
Optics grades – 17 Apr 2008.doc