OPTICS

Catalog description

Survey of main themes of classical optics, emphasizing the representation of light as a wave, but including geometrical optics and its applications to simple optical instruments. Interference and diffraction phenomena, from the viewpoint of light as a scalar wave will be discussed. Light will be described as an electromagnetic wave and interaction of light with matter, including phenomena of reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, polarization, and birefringence will also be considered.