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PHY 222 Optics

NCE2 levelSciences16 topics

PHY 222 covers 16 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT
  2. Determination of the velocity of light using the Michelson - Morley method
  3. Wave nature of light (Huygen’s Principle).
  4. INTERFERENCE AND ITS APPLICATION
  5. Conditions for interference
  6. Young’s double slit experiment
  7. Newton’s rings
  8. Thin-films and wedges, blooming of lenses
  9. Simple problems relating to them
  10. DIFFRACTION AND ITS EFFECTS
  11. Fraunhofer and Fresnel’s diffraction
  12. Diffraction gratings, criterion for optical resolution
  13. POLARIZATION OF LIGHT
  14. Polarization by reflection
  15. Qualitative description and applications of polarization
  16. LASERS and its applications - Qualitative treatment only.

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT

The wave theory of light explains light as a wave phenomenon and uses ideas such as wavelength, frequency, speed, phase, interference, diffraction and polarization to account for optical behaviour. For examination purposes, you must master both the basic wave description of light and how this theory successfully explains major optical effects better than a simple particle-only picture.

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