Physics 106 Fall 2006

Light, Perception, Photography, and Visual Phenomena (3 cr)

 

Prof. Jordan A. Goodman

Email: goodman@umdgrb.umd.edu

Office: 4328 Physics       Phone: 301-405-6033

Course Syllabus is here

Course Description: The goal of this course is to learn about light and associated phenomena. We will cover a broad range of topics including light, lenses, photography, vision, and color. This is a physics course, so we will approach these subjects with a rationalist perspective, but it is intended for non-scientists and will use a minimum of mathematics.

Course website: http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys106/goodman/Physics_106.html

Blackboard software: Our course will utilize Blackboard software for homework assignments, notes, discussion and announcements. The link to our class is found through https://elms.umd.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday 3-5 (and anytime you drop by and I am there...)

CORE Info:   Phys107 must be taken concurrently with Phys106 in order to meet the CORE Physical Science Lab (PL) requirement.   Phys106 taken alone will not satisfy the CORE non-lab science (PS) requirement!

Text:                 Seeing the Light by Falk, Brill, and Stork (Wiley, 1986).