Wave Optics

This week you will read the chapters listed below for this part and you will have to solve the associated problems in loncapa. You can also start the problems from the extended set 3 pertaining to this chapter.

  • 78 Introduction to Wave Optics
  • 79 The Wave Aspect of Light: Interference
  • 80 Huygens’s Principle: Diffraction
  • 81 Young’s Double Slit Experiment
  • 82 Multiple Slit Diffraction
  • 83 Single Slit Diffraction
  • 84 Limits of Resolution: The Rayleigh Criterion
  • 85 Thin Film Interference
  • 86 Polarization
  • 87 *Extended Topic* Microscopy Enhanced by the Wave Characteristics of Light

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