Waves, Light & Quanta Tim Freegarde Web Gallery of Art; National Gallery, London

2 Waves, Light & Quanta RAYS AND IMAGES mirrors, lenses and telescopes propagation matrices WAVELENGTH AND POLARIZATION prisms, rainbows and dispersion polarization, birefringence and polarizers Fermat’s principle and Snell’s lawpolarization propagation matrices WAVE PHENOMENA amplitudes and interference Huygens construction and diffraction SUPERPOSITIONS spectra and spectrometers beats and coherence QUANTA AND WAVE- PARTICLE DUALITY electrons: diffraction and tunnelling wavepackets and uncertainty photons: energy and momentum slits, gratings and interferometers

3 LECTURES three a week for 10 weeks or so guided reading Waves, Light & Quanta all material covered by textbooks CLASSES once a week – Weds workshop follows 9 o’clock lecture ten exercise sheets, two questions each COURSEWORK hand in to School office (Friday noon) 20% a: 5 short questions EXAMINATION b: 2 longer questions 70% 2 short questions MID-TERM TEST core material 10%

4 Books and resources exercises and classes, lecturer, demonstrators and tutors lectures, University Physics, course material and your own lecture notes textbooks - some suggestions: You should expect to refer to: HechtOptics good: right level and comprehensive Pedrotti & PedrottiIntroduction to Optics pretty good, but somewhat terse Smith, King & WilkinsOptics and Photonics pretty good, but slightly too advanced FeynmanLectures in Physics excellent – put on your Christmas list! for handouts, links and other material, see