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Instructor:
Prof. Chih-Wei (C. W.) Lai,
4238 Biomedical and Physical Sciences,
Telephone: 884-5675, email: cwlai@msu.edu.
Office hours: 2-3pm Wed & Fri;
email to schedule a personal appointment.
Teaching Assistants:
Optics Lab
Tim Evans, email: evansti4@msu.edu.
Email to schedule a personal appointment.
Homework Grader
Linying Lin, email: linlingy@msu.edu.
Office hours (for homework): 2-3 pm, 1250 BPS.
Text:
1. Optics, by E.
Hecht, 4th Edition (Addison-Wesley).
2. Introduction to Modern Optics, by Fowles ( Dover Book).
3.
Schaum's outline of Theory and Problems of Optics, by E. Hecht (McGraw-Hill).
(Additional References)
Fundamental of Optics, F. Jenkins and H. E. White (McGraw-Hill).
Optics and Optical Instruments, B. K. Johnson (Dover).
Course Structure:
Two lectures
per week in room 1308 Biomedical & Physical Sciences.
Tuesday and Thursday; 3:00pm - 3:50pm.
The
schedule of the lectures, which is subject to change, can be found on the lecture sylabus.
One lab of about 3 hours every week starting September 8. See lab syllabus for more details.
Homework assignments and other information can be found on the homework page.
Grading:
Homework:
We will give out homework problems during the semester - 10in total.
There will be credit for the homework - normally problems will be handed out on a Tuesday - problem sets will be available at least a week before they are due. There will be 10 assignments: the best 9 will count at 10 points each towards your final grade.
The first homework assignment is due on Tuesday 22 September in class.
Midterm Exams:
There will be two midterm exams.
The first will be held on Tuesday 20 October for one hour. This exam is closed book. You should bring a calculator.
The second is in the form of a special project, to be described in class, due in mid-November.
Final Exam:
The 2 hour final exam will cover everything we have studied. It will be held in the week of December 14. All answers and calculations should be contained on the exam pages handed out at the beginning of the exam. Final grades will be posted on the door of BPS 4238 by 5 pm next Monday, December 21.
Optics Lab:
The lab will be run by Prof. Lai, with help from a TA (Tim Evans) in room 1250 Biomedical & Physical Sciences.
There will be a total of 10 labs (+ one demo lab). See labs syllabus for details.
Note:
The labs will begin the week
of September 7 . You are REQUIRED to study the lab instructions posted online in advance. You will lose 1 point out of 10 for that lab report if you do not bring a printed copy of the lab instruction to the lab.
Final
Grades:
Please familiarize yourself with University policies concerning academic integrity (https://www.msu.edu/unit/ombud/RegsOrdsPolicies.html).
They will be applied throughout the course.
Grades will be weighted as follows:
|
|
% |
|
Midterm I |
15 |
|
Project (Midterm II) |
15 |
|
Homework |
15 |
|
Final Exam |
20 |
|
Laboratory |
35 |
|
TOTAL |
100 |
The guaranteed scale, which may be lowered but not raised, is:
|
Total point percentage |
Final grade |
|
>93% |
4.0 |
|
88%-93% |
3.5 |
|
83%-88% |
3.0 |
|
78%-83% |
2.5 |
|
73%-78% |
2.0 |
|
68%-73% |
1.5 |
|
60%-68% |
1.0 |
|
<50% |
0.0 |