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# | Date and Tests Unit 11 | W Jan 23
| Overview of course; first exposure (pun intended) to light; c
| Ch 1§1,2 |
| 2 | F Jan 25
| speed of light; units, scientific notation, prefixes for units
| Ch 1§2,3,4 |
| 3 | M Jan 28
| history of the nature of light: partciles vs. (?) waves?
waves: frequency, wavelength, velocity; the "speed of space," gravity,
nuclear forces, etc.
| Ch 1§4, Ch 2§1 |
| 4 | W Jan 30
| electromagnetic spectrum (radio, infrared, microwave, visible, UV, X-ray, gamma...) energy, "r squared" law, blackbody radiation
| Ch 2§1-4 |
| 5 | F Feb 1
| shadows, eclipses (umbra, penumbra), nature of waves, law of reflection, fun with mirrors, specular vs. diffuse
| Ch 2§4,5 | 6
| M Feb 4*
| plasma frequency, refraction (including index of), Snell's law
| Ch 2§4,5 |
| 7 | W Feb 6
| total internal reflection, dispersion, diamonds, rainbows and mirages
| Ch 2§5,6 |
| Unit 28 | F Feb 8
| begin geometrical optics: mirror, mirror on the wall...plane or spherical
| Ch 3§1,2,3
| 9 | M Feb 11
| more geometrical optics
| Ch 3§1,2,3
| | 10 | W Feb 13
| convex & concave mirrors, ray rules
| Ch 3§3 |
| 11 | F Feb 15
| on to lenses! convex (converging) lenses, diverging lenses (and ray rules!) real vs. virtual images!
| Ch 3§3,4 |
| 12 | M Feb 18
| 13 | W Feb 20
| finish diverging lens ray rules, power...on to Thin Lens Equations! aberrations, Fresnel lens, compound lenses
| Ch 3§4, Appendix E |
| 14 | F Feb 22
| Daguerreotypes, basic film chemistry, pinhole camera, anamorphic art
| Ch 3§3-5; Ch 4§7; Ch 8 (foreshadowing) |
| Unit 315 | M Feb 25
| cameras: pinhole vs lensed; aperture; depth-of-field; parts of a camera
| Ch 2§2B, Ch 4§1,2 |
| 16 | W Feb 27
| shutters, lenses, "f-number", exposure
| Ch 4§3,4,5 | | 17 | F Mar 1
| Exposure! And a little on digital cameras (uh-oh, there's nothing in the text about that!)
| Ch 4§6 |
| 18 | M Mar 4
| digital cameras; the (hairy?) eyeball! (and the evolution thereof)
| Ch 5§1 |
| 19 | W Mar 6
| SNOW DAY!
| 20 | F Mar 8
| 21 | M Mar 11
| parts of the eye: you know what the eyelens is, but how important is it? visual acuity (it's the angle that matters!): myopia, hyperopia, presbyopia, accommodation
| Ch 5§2 |
| 22 | W Mar 13
| retina, rods & cones, fovea, blind spot, optic nerve, sensitivity, process time, latency, persistence, adaptation
| Ch 5§3 |
| Unit 423 | F Mar 15
| Processing the image...basic lightness perception
| Ch 7§1,2,3 |
| 24 | M Mar 25
| multi-lensed instruments: microscopes, telescopes
| Ch 6 | 25 | W Mar 27
| multi-lensed instruments: microscopes, telescopes
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| 26 | F Mar 29
| "Free day"
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| 27 | M Apr 1
| 28 | W Apr 3
| Illusions! lateral inhibition and channel saturation, retinal stabilization, simultaneous contrast, negative afterimages, latency vs. persistence, motion aftereffects, saccades, tremors, drifts
| Ch 7§3-6 |
| 29 | F Apr 5
| 3d depth cues: accommodation, convergence, parallax, binocular disparity,
pulfrich effect
| Ch 8§1-5 |
| 30 | M Apr 8
| more (ambiguous) depth cues; artists' tricks: size, overlay, shadows, coloring (blue for distance), linear perspective (more illusions! Necker cube!), crepuscular rays, anti-crepuscular rays, patterns and EXPECTATIONS!
| Ch 8§6 |
| Unit 531 | W Apr 10**
| Color! RGB system in computers; spectral colors (monochromatic); HSL system
| Ch 9§1-3 |
| 32 | F Apr 12
| Additive color mixing; R O Y G C B, W K; chromaticity diagram (1931 CIE); partitive mixing
| Ch 9§4,5 |
| 33 | M Apr 15
| negative color (hints of chapter 10); color gamut of human vision; subtractive color mixing; dependence on light source; CMYK printer colors (dyes, paints, pigments);
| Ch 9§6,7 | 34 | W Apr 17
| Human vision; opponent processing color theory is not a
"red Hering" (bad pun); color "deficiencies", simultaneous color contrast
| Ch 10§1-6 |
| 35 | F Apr 19
| 36 | M Apr 22
| soap film "rainbows" aren't! interference of coherent sources; reflections
| Ch 12§1,2 |
| 37 | W Apr 24
| applications of interference; diffraction gratings; CDs
| Ch 12§2,3,5 |
| 38 | F Apr 26
| scattering...
| Ch 12§ |
| 39 | M Apr 29
| polarization is not about the North Pole! sunglasses and sky
| Ch 13§ |
| 40 | W May 1
| Class Cancelled
| Special Topic41 | F May 3
| Holograms
| Ch § | | 42 | M May 6
| Beginning of Final Review Session
| 43 | W May 8
| Final Review Session
| 44
| W May 15
| FINAL EXAM (confirmed): Wednesday, May 15th 1:30-3:30pm in Phys 1410
| Chs. 1-10,12.1-5, 13.? + digital cameras
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**Monday November 9th is the last day to drop with a "W" (not to scare you). back
†A "slippage day" (or "wrap-up" lecture) allows for any falling behind on my part. If we catch up sometime before this day is over, open time is allotted for questions on any of the material so far. back