PHY 300
Waves and Optics
Spring 2020
Meeting time and place: Instructor:

Lecture:

 MWF 12:00-12:53 pm P-118  
Lab-01:    Tu 8:30-10:20 am A-124  
Lab-02: We 2:30-4:20 pm A-124  
Lab-03: Tu 2:30-4:20 pm A-124
Lab-04:
 We
 8:30-10.20 am
 A-124
Prof. Dominik Schneble
Office hours: WF 1-2:15pm (P118)
TA: Sam McClung
 tba Office hours: tba  
TA: Rian Koots
 tba Office hours: tba
  



 

     
Topics:
Free oscillations, driven oscillations and resonance, normal modes for discrete 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)
 
Grading:   HW 20%, Midterm Exam 20%, Final Exam 30%, Laboratory work 30% (9 labs, see below)
Schedule and assignments
  All course materials and assignments will be posted on Blackboard
Wk   Lecture
Lab* Homework*
1 Jan 27
 Complex notation
 Jan 29
Free oscillations
Jan 31

no lab - read lab introduction and lab rules
2 Feb 3
 Feb 5 Feb 7
no lab  
3 Feb 10
Driven oscillations
 Feb 12
 Feb 14
 (1) Resonance
4 Fab 17
Coupled oscillators
 Feb 19
 Feb 21
 (2) Coupled oscillators
5 Feb 24
 Feb 26
Continuous systems
 Feb 28
 (3) Speed of sound


6 Mar 2
Fourier transform
 Mar 4

Mar 6

 (4) Transmission line
7 Mar 9 Wave properties of light
 		Mar 11
Mar 13 Midterm exam
 makeup lab


8 Mar 16 [Spring Recess] Mar 18 [Spring Recess] Mar 20 [Spring Recess] no lab  
9 Mar 23
Polarization		 Mar 25

Mar 27 Reflection and Refraction

 no lab  
10 Mar 30
 Apr 1
 Apr 3
 (5) Polarization


11 Apr 6
Coherence and 2-beam interference		 Apr 8

 Apr 10  Multiple-beam interference
 (6) Michelson interferometer


12 Apr 13

 Apr 15 Diffraction

 Apr 17
 (7) Fabry-Perot interferometer  
13 Apr 20

 Apr 22

Apr 24 Ray optics

 (8) Diffraction
14 Apr 27
 		 Apr 29
 May 1 Fourier optics
 (9) Optical instruments
15 May 4
 May 6 Gaussian beams
 May 8 [last day of class]

makeup lab

  
16

May 11

May 13

 May 15

  May 18   Final exam [11:15-1:45]

   

*Regulations for lab and homework

HOMEWORK: The homework will be collected in class on the due dates indicated, and it will be graded.  You may work together on solving the problems, but cannot hand in the same solutions - we 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.

LAB RULES: You will be required to perform the experiments described in the laboratory manuals (download above). 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 the TA on the 7th day after the lab, before the Physics Department office closes at 4:30 PM. 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. The report that you submit must be your own work. Submission of (partially) identical or overly similar lab reports counts as cheating and results in zero points for the lab for all parties involved.

You have to complete AT LEAST eight of the nine 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 of the 9 labs 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.

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last update 01/24/2020