Lecture Schedule

PHYS 3038, Fall 2015

Week No.	Dates	Lecture Topics	Lecture #
1	01 Sept	Ch1. A Brief History	L1
2	08 Sept	Ch2. Wave Motion	L2
	10 Sept	Ch3.1-3.2 EM Theory, Photons, and Light	L3
3	15 Sept	Ch3.3-3.7 EM Theory, Photons, and Light (continued)	L4
	17 Sept	Ch5.1-5.3 Geometrical Optics	L5 , Lens
4	22 Sept	Ch5.4-5.7 Geomerrical Optics (continued)	L6
	24 Sept	Ch6.1-6.2 More on Geometric Optics	L7 RayTracing
5	29 Sept	Ch6.3-6.5 More on Geometric Optics (continued)	L8
6	06 Oct	Ch4 The Propagation of Light	L9
	08 Oct	Ch7 The Superposition of Waves	L10
7	13 Oct	Ch8 Polarization	L11
	15 Oct	Midterm Exam 1:30pm-2:50pm, LTH
8	20 Oct	Ch8 Polarization (continued): Jones vectors and Matrices	L12
	22 Oct	Midterm Paper Checking
9	27 Oct	Ch9.1-9.2 Interference	L13
	29 Oct	Ch9.3-9.4 Interference	L14
10	03 Nov	Ch9.5-9.6 Interference	L15
	05 Nov	Ch9.7-9.8 Interference	L16
11	10 Nov	Ch10.1-10.2.2 Diffraction	L17
	12 Nov	Ch10.2.3-10.2.6 Diffraction	L18
12	17 Nov	Ch10.2.7- 10.3.2 Diffraction	L19
	19 Nov	Ch10.3.3-10.3.11 Diffraction + Midterm exam paper review	L20
13	24 Nov	Ch11 Fourier Optics	L21
	26 Nov	Ch11 Fourier Optics + Final Review	L22






	17 Dec	Final Exam 12:30pm-3:30pm, Rm 4619 (Lift 31-32)