PHY 431: Optics I

Fall Semester 2002

LECTURER: Professor Michael F. Thorpe

OFFICE:

Room: 4268 Biomedical & Physical Sciences

Tel.: 355-9279
e-mail: thorpe@pa.msu.edu

Lectures:
Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00pm - 3:50 pm
Room: 1308 Biomedical & Physical Sciences

OFFICE HOURS:
Please come to my office any time - if the door is open and I am not with someone - please come in.

Course homepage
http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/current/PHY431/

 

LAB COORDINATOR: Professor Michael F. Thorpe

OFFICE:

Room: 4268 Biomedical & Physical Sciences
Tel.: 355-9279
e-mail: thorpe@pa.msu.edu

LAB 1:
Wednesday  1:50pm to 4:40pm
Room: 1250 Biomedical & Physical Sciences

LAB 2:
Wednesday  6:00pm to 8:50pm
Room: 1250 Biomedical & Physical Sciences

LAB 3:
T uesday  6:00pm to 8:50pm
Room: 1250 Biomedical & Physical Sciences
 

  COURSE DESCRIPTION

  LECTURE SCHEDULE

  HANDOUTS, HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS & SOLUTIONS

  LECTURES - FINAL

  LABORATORY SCHEDULE

 LABS - FINAL

  STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHS

TEXT BOOK: Fundamentals of Optics, Fourth Edition
          by Francis A. Jenkins abd Harvey E. White
          McGraw Hill , 1976

PREREQUISITES:
         algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, complex numbers, calculus

GRADING CRITERIA:
         Midterm exam I: 12%; Midterm exam II: 12%; Final exam: 24%; Lab: 29%; Homework: 24%.

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