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Jul 05, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book
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PHY 310 - Introduction to Optics3 Credits
Offered Fall
Covers the basics concepts and methods of optics, including geometrical and wave optics, polarization, lenses and mirrors, coherence, free-space propagation, Fourier optics, interference and diffraction. Optical devices such as the lasers and interferometers are briefly discussed, and the quantum mechanical description of light in terms of photons is introduced.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): PHY 122 - Physics II and MTH 126 - Calculus II
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