PHYS 620B Light & Optics
Course Description: Teachers will learn how light behaves and the reasons why it does so. Topics to be studied include light propagation, shadows, refraction, lenses, prisms, color, eye properties, wave properties of light, and optical phenomena. Many activites will be conducted, including ray tracing, determination of lens focal lengths, making telescopes, and assembling spectroscopes. Many lecture demonstrations will be conducted for better understanding of the concepts of light and optics.
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