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Fall 2006, PHY300 |
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Waves and Optics |
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| Meeting Time
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Instructors: |
| MWF
10:40AM-11:35AM, Physics P-122 (lecture) |
| Thurs 2:20PM
- 4:20PM, Physics A-124 (lab) |
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| Prof.
Dominik Schneble (lecture), A-106, Office hours:
Wed 12:30-2PM |
| Prof.
Ralf Averbeck (lab), C-103, Office hours: Fri
10-noon |
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| Juhee Hong (TA),
A-105, Office hours: Fri 2-3PM |
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Grading:
HW 20%, Midterm Exam 20%, Final Exam
30%, Laboratory work 30%
(minimum 9 labs, see below)
Lecture
Topics:
Free oscillations,
driven oscillations and resonance, normal modes for coupled oscillators
and continuous media, traveling waves; Maxwell's equations and wave
equation for light, polarization, reflection and refraction, coherence
and interference, diffraction, ray optics, Gaussian beams.
Textbooks:
Vibrations and Waves, by A.P. French (Norton)
Modern Optics, by G.R. Fowles (Dover)
Some nice
simulations/animations of the topics discussed can be found
here.
Homework assignments:
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(1) |
French, chapter 1: #1,2,5,6,8 and chapter 2: #1,2,3,4 |
due:
September 15 |
solutions |
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(2) |
French, chapter 3: #1,2
and chapter 4: #3,5,10 |
due: September 22 |
solutions |
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(3) |
French, chapter 5:
#2,4,8,9 |
due: September 29 |
solutions |
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(4) |
French, chapter 6:
#1,2,6,11 |
due: October 6 |
solutions |
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(5) |
French, chapter 6: #12
and 7: #1,2,4,5 |
due: October 18 |
solutions |
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(6) |
Fowles, chapter 1: #7 and
2: #3,4,5,8,12 |
due: November 3 |
solutions |
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(7) |
Fowles, chapter 2: #17,19,20 |
due:
November 13 |
solutions |
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(8) |
Fowles, chapter
3: #2,5,7 |
due:
November 17 |
solutions |
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(9) |
Fowles, chapter
4: #1,3,5,7 |
due: November
27 |
solutions |
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(10) |
Fowles, chapter 5: 4,9,12 |
due: December 6 |
solutions |
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(11) |
Fowles, chapter 10: 4,5 (extra:
6,7) |
due: December 15 |
solutions |
HOMEWORK RULES: The homework will be collected
in class on Friday following the week in which it is assigned,
and it will be graded. You may work together on solving
the problems, but cannot hand in the same solutions. We have a
small class, and will be on the watch for this kind of problem.
Solutions will be posted after the homework is collected.
Therefore, late papers will NOT be accepted.
Midterm exam:
October 20, 2006 --
practice midterm&solutions
Final exam:
December 22 (Friday) 8am-10:30am-
practice final
Laboratory
| September 7 |
No lab, but read writeup on
error propagation |
| September 14 |
Lab 1:
resonance |
| September 21 |
Lab 2:
coupled oscillators |
| September 28 |
Lab 3:
speed of sound |
| October 5 |
Lab 4:
transmission line |
| October 12 |
Makeup lab |
| October 19 |
No lab |
| October 26 |
Lab 5:
Polarization |
| November 2 |
No lab |
| November 9 |
Lab 6:
Michelson Interferometer |
| November 16 |
Lab 7:
Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
| November 23 |
No lab |
| November 30 |
Lab 8:
Diffraction |
| December 7 |
Lab 9:
Optical instruments |
| December 14 |
Makeup lab/Lab
10: Gaussian beams |
LAB
RULES:
You will be required to perform the experiments
described in the laboratory manuals. Before you begin these
you must present a writeup as you enter the lab. Nobody can
perform an experiment without presenting the writeup FIRST. Your writeup should describe the physical ideas you plan
to explore, the way you will go about exploring them, and your anticipated
results. It need not be more than a page or two, but it is not length-limited either. Write it into your lab notebook and have the lab TA
sign it. This writeup will not be graded but the TA's approval and signature
are required BEFORE you can start on the experiment.
After you have completed your measurements,
recorded in your lab books immediately following the writeup
you have prepared before, you have to analyze your results and
compare with the expectations in your writeup. The full lab report
must be submitted to Prof. Schneble's mailbox before the Physics
Department office closes at 4:30 PM on the Monday following Thursday's
lab. That is, you have not much time to complete it, so you need to
be well-prepared beforehand. The lab report will be graded on a scale
from 0 to 10. Your grade does NOT depend on whether you got
agreement of your results with the expectation, but only upon how well
you perform your work.
You have to complete AT LEAST
nine of the ten labs scheduled for this semester.
If you miss a lab you can make up for this on one of the two
scheduled make-up dates. If you have one lab missing at the end of
the semester this will be graded as zero score. If you have more
than one lab missing you will FAIL the course no
matter how well you perform in the other parts of this course.
SPECIAL NEEDS. IF you have a
physical, psychological, medical or learning disability
that may impact your courxe work, please contact Disability
Support Services, ECC Building Rm 128, (631) 632-6748. They will
determine with you what accommodations are necessary and appropriate.
All information and documentation is confidential. Students
requiring emergency evacuation are encouraged to discuss their needs
with their professors and Disability Support Services. More information
at http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/disabilityservices/
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