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PHYS1B24
(PHAS1224)
Waves, Optics
& Acoustics
Stan Zochowski
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E8 – Physics Building
020 7679 7038 ( ext 37038)
[email protected]
Monday and Wednesday 13:00 to 14:00
especially for non-tutorial students,
(e.g., Natural Science or Earth Science)
TIMETABLE
All in Massey Theatre
Thursday, 12:00 – 13:00, Massey
“Alternate” between 1B47 and 1B24
All January slots for 1B47
12 Jan
19 Jan
26 Jan
Term ends on Friday, 24 March
COURSEWORK
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4 problem sets to be handed in
 will count the best ¾ towards 15% of final
coursemark
 failure to hand in more than 35% of the work
means the student will fail the entire course
 Pass: 40%
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no problem-solving classes for 1B24:
- will post problems on web site
TEXTBOOKS
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Serway and Beichner, Physics for
Scientists and Engineers, Saunders
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Fishbane, Gasiorwicz and Thornton
Halliday, Resnick and Walker
any other first-year textbook that “talks to
you”
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MORE TEXTBOOKS
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R.W. Ditchburn Light, Wiley (1963)
O.S. Heavens and R.W. Ditchburn Insight into Optics,
Wiley (1991)
F.G. Smith and J.H. Thomson, Optics (2nd edition),
Wiley (1987)
E. Hecht Optics (2nd edition), Addison-Wesley (1974)
S.G. Lipson and H. Lipson Optical Physics, Cambridge
(1969)
R.S. Longhurst Geometrical and Physical Optics, Wiley
(1967)
H.J. Pain The Physics of Vibrations and Waves (4th
edition), Wiley (1993)
WEB RESOURCES
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My pages:
www.cmmp.ucl.ac.uk/~swz/courses/1B24/1B24_06.html
Tentative syllabus
Powerpoint presentations (ppt, pdf, htm)
Old exam papers
Problem sets …… solutions
Notes & Summary
Query Form
And More!!!!!!
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Past exam papers:
exam-papers.ucl.ac.uk/MAPS/Physics/
Lecture Notes
Available from link on course web site
Need:
username:
password:
~ 170 pages: print more than 1 page/page
Corrections/updates: check date
listed
No guarantees
Course Query Form
 Available
from web site
 Password protected
 Questions on material
 Comments on course
– constructive please!
 Either private reply or taken up in a lecture
PHYS1B24
optics
waves
light
waves
Simple
harmonic
oscillator
phasors,
complex
expon’l not’n,
addition
beats
Energy
transfer
Wave
equation
speed
solutions
travelling
waves
standing
waves
Sound
waves
long/trans
waves
Doppler
phase/group
velocities
dispersion
General/
nature
light
polarization
Types/
methods
propagation
interference
Fermat/
Huygens
Coherence/
limits/Young’s
Reflection/
refraction
Thin films
/conditions/
wedges, etc.
Michelson/
Fabry-Perot
Single/multiple
Circular/
Rayleigh
interferometers
diffraction
gratings
optics
mirrors
lenses
systems
Ray tracing
Refraction
at spherical
surface
Plane/
convex/
concave
Lens-makers’ eq’n
Thin
lenses
aberrations
Real/
Virtual
images
Camera/eye/
magnifier/
microscope/
telescope
Compound/
thick lenses