PHYS375 EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS III

- University of Maryland, College Park -

Fall 2010

TAs:
T: Nightvid Cole / email: ncole1 at umd.edu
Th: Brian Calvert / email: bcalvert at umd.edu
Syllabus
Schedule

Experiments	Notes	HW	Links	Lectures
LabJack Matlab Files	Error Analysis	HW1 soln	online matlab interpreter	8/30: Maxwell's Equations and the Wave Equation
LAB 0: MATLAB	Lab Reports	HW2 soln	GNU/octave for windows	9/7: Boundary Conditions and Plane Waves at Normal Incidence on an Interface
LAB 0: Data Acquisition		HW3 soln	LaTeX for Windows	9/14: Oblique Incidence and Snell's Law
LAB 1: Refraction		HW4 soln		9/21: Imaging at Spherical Interfaces (Reflecting and Refracting)
LAB 2: Geometric Optics		HW5 soln		9/28: Lenses and Telescopes
LAB 3: Polarization		HW6 soln		10/5: Linear Polarization and Brewster's Angle
LAB 4: Interferometry				10/12: Circular polarization, birefringence, and matrix notation
LAB 5: Diffraction				10/19: Interference
LAB 6: Atomic Spectra				10/26: Beats, Laser cavities, and Interferometers
				11/2: Diffraction
				11/9: Diffraction: Gratings and Imaging
				11/16: Electronic Structure of the atom
				11/30: Helmholtz eqn and Gaussian beam

Anlage's class notes 9/13

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