Physics 323 Lecture Notes Part I: Optics - Sicyon

Physics 323 Lecture Notes

Part I: Optics

A. A. Louro

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Contents

1 Nature of light

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1.2

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Light ¨C Wave or stream of particles? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1.1.1

What is a wave? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1.1.2

Evidence for wave properties of light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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1.1.3

Evidence for light as a stream of particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Features of a wave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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2 Propagation of light

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2.1

Huygens¡¯ Principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2

Refraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.3

Total internal reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

3 Images

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Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.1.1

Real images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.1.2

Virtual images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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