PHYS 402 Fall 2019
PHYS 402 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| 1 |
Monday
8/26/2019 |
Light Waves and Geometric Optics | Hecht 4.3-4.6 | No lab | |||||||||
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Tuesday
8/27/2019 |
No lab | ||||||||||||
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Wednesday
8/28/2019 |
Geometric Optics and Fermat's Principle | Hecht 4.3-4.6 | No lab | ||||||||||
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Thursday
8/29/2019 |
No lab | ||||||||||||
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Friday
8/30/2019 |
No lab | HW1 (due Thursday Sept.12) |
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| 2 |
Monday
9/2/2019 |
Labor day | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
9/3/2019 |
Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope | ||||||||||||
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Wednesday
9/4/2019 |
Thin Lenses, Extended Images |
Hecht 5.1-5.4 |
Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope | ||||||||||
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Thursday
9/5/2019 |
Lab #1: Aberrations or Telescope | ||||||||||||
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Friday
9/6/2019 |
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Monday
9/9/2019 |
Extended Images, Magnification | Hecht 5.1-5.4 | ||||||||||
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Tuesday
9/10/2019 |
Labs, continued | ||||||||||||
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Wednesday
9/11/2019 |
Optical Systems | Hecht 5.7 | Labs, continued | ||||||||||
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Thursday
9/12/2019 |
Labs, continued | HW2 (due Thursday Sept.19) |
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Friday
9/13/2019 |
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| 4 |
Monday
9/16/2019 |
Hecht 6.1-6.3 | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
9/17/2019 |
Labs, continued | HW3 (due Thursday Sept.27) |
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Wednesday
9/18/2019 |
Review of Waves | Hecht 2.1-2.8 | Labs, continued | ||||||||||
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Thursday
9/19/2019 |
Labs, continued | ||||||||||||
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Friday
9/20/2019 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/23/2019 |
Electromagnetic Waves | Hecht 3.1-3.2 | ||||||||||
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Tuesday
9/24/2019 |
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Wednesday
9/25/2019 |
Energy and Momentum | Hecht 3.3 | HW4 (due Thursday Oct.3) |
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Thursday
9/26/2019 |
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Friday
9/27/2019 |
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| 6 |
Monday
9/30/2019 |
Emission of EM waves | Hecht 3.4-3.5 | ||||||||||
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Tuesday
10/1/2019 |
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Wednesday
10/2/2019 |
Light in Matter | Hecht 3.5 | HW5 (due Thursday Oct.10) |
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Thursday
10/3/2019 |
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Friday
10/4/2019 |
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| 7 |
Monday
10/7/2019 |
Scattering of Light | Hecht 4.1-4.2 | ||||||||||
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Tuesday
10/8/2019 |
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Wednesday
10/9/2019 |
Fresnel Formulas | Hecht 4.6-4.7 | HW6 (due Thursday Oct.17) |
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Thursday
10/10/2019 |
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Friday
10/11/2019 |
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| 8 |
Monday
10/14/2019 |
Fourier Analysis | Hecht 7.1-7.4 | ||||||||||
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Tuesday
10/15/2019 |
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Wednesday
10/16/2019 |
Polarization. Malus's Law | Hecht 8.1-8.4 | HW7 (due Thursday Oct.25) |
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Thursday
10/17/2019 |
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Friday
10/18/2019 |
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| 9 |
Monday
10/21/2019 |
Birefringence. Jones Calculus | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
10/22/2019 |
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Wednesday
10/23/2019 |
Phase Shifters. Stokes Parameters | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
10/24/2019 |
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Friday
10/25/2019 |
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| 10 |
Monday
10/28/2019 |
Midterm Exam Solutions | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
10/29/2019 |
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Wednesday
10/30/2019 |
Interferometry | HW8 (due Monday Nov.11) |
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Thursday
10/31/2019 |
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Friday
11/1/2019 |
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| 11 |
Monday
11/4/2019 |
Multiple-beam interference | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
11/5/2019 |
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Wednesday
11/6/2019 |
Fabry-Perot interferometer |
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Thursday
11/7/2019 |
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Friday
11/8/2019 |
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| 12 |
Monday
11/11/2019 |
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Tuesday
11/12/2019 |
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Wednesday
11/13/2019 |
NO LECTURE | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
11/14/2019 |
HW10 (due Nov.22) |
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Friday
11/15/2019 |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/18/2019 |
Fraunhofer Diffraction | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
11/19/2019 |
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Wednesday
11/20/2019 |
Fresnel Diffraction | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
11/21/2019 |
HW11 (due Dec.5) |
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Friday
11/22/2019 |
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| 14 |
Monday
11/25/2019 |
Fall break | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
11/26/2019 |
Fall break | ||||||||||||
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Wednesday
11/27/2019 |
Fall break | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
11/28/2019 |
Fall break | ||||||||||||
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Friday
11/29/2019 |
Fall break | ||||||||||||
| 15 |
Monday
12/2/2019 |
Fourier Methods | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
12/3/2019 |
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Wednesday
12/4/2019 |
Energy Quantization and Photons | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
12/5/2019 |
HW12 (due Dec.12) |
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Friday
12/6/2019 |
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| 16 |
Monday
12/9/2019 |
Laser | |||||||||||
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Tuesday
12/10/2019 |
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Wednesday
12/11/2019 |
Holography | ||||||||||||
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Thursday
12/12/2019 |
Reading day | ||||||||||||
| 17 | 12/19/2019 | Final Exam will be on 12/19/2019
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