Upated: January 5, 2000

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Schedule - please refer to the Experiments and Problem Sets pages

Week - Dates
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

1 - Jan 10 - 12
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1. Spherometer
and Lens Clock
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2 - Jan 17 - 18
lab 1 due
2. Mirrors and
Mirage Toy
Prob Set 1

3 - Jan 24 - 25
lab 2 due
3. Focal Length of Lenses
Prob Set 2

4 - Jan 31 - Feb 2
lab 3 due
4. Spectro-
photometer
Prob Set 3

5 - Feb 7 - 9
lab 4 due
full writeup
5. Index of
Refraction - PbO
Prob Set 4

6 - Feb 14 - 16
lab 5 due
6. Malus' Law for Polarization
Exam 1

7 - Feb 21 -23
lab 6 due
7. Fresnel Reflection Laws
Prob Set 5

8 - Feb 28 - Mar 1
lab 7 due
8. Laser
Characteristics
Prob Set 6

9 - Mar 6 - 8
lab 8 due
full writeup
9. Two-slit
Interference
Prob Set 7

10 - Mar 20 - 22
lab 9 due
10. Michelson Interferometer
Prob Set 8

11 - Mar 27 - 29
lab 10 due
Review
Exam 2

12 - Apr 3 - 5
lab 11 due
11. Diffraction
Gratings et al
Prob Set 9

13 - Apr 10 - 12
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12. Airy Disk
Patterns
Prob Set 10

14 - Apr 17 - 19
lab 12 due
13. Poisson's
Spot
Prob Set 11

15 - Apr 24 - 26
lab 13 due
full writeup
LAB
Presentations
Review

Problem Sets: Due Wednesday
Lab Writeups: Due Monday - turn in your lab notebook each Monday for comments and a grade. In addition, you will turn in a full writeup of a lab on the dates indicated above. That writeup will be based on one of the 4 or 5 labs (your choice) you did since the previous full writeup.

Lab Presentation - this will be a 20-min (approximately) presentation of one of the lab experiments - topics will be assigned.

Exams: Go here to see exams given in P360 - Spring, 1999

Spring Break: Week of March 13
Finals Week: Week of May 1