Lab Description
The following 6 subjects will be covered. A laboratory report has
to be produced for each one of them.
1) Reflection and
Refraction
To work on during 08/28/06-09/12/06: Erik & Pui @ table 1, Yang
& Se @ table 2, Abbie & John @ table 3
To work on during 09/18/06-09/26/06: Martin & Soham @ table 4, Amy
& Avtar @ table 5, Jacqueline & Pisut @ table 6
2) Polarized Light
To work on during 08/28/06-09/12/06: Pisut & Martin @ table 4,
Soham & Amy @ table 5, Avtar & Jacqueline @ table 6
To work on during 09/18/06-09/26/06: John & Erik @ table 1, Pui
& Yang @ table 2, Se & Abbie @ table 3
3) Geometrical Optics
To work on during 10/02/06-10/17/06: Martin & Pui @ table 1, Amy
& Se @ table 2, Jacqueline & John @ table 3
To work on during 10/23/06-10/31/06: Erik & Soham @ table 4, Yang
& Avtar @ table 5, Abbie & Pisut @ table 6
4) Interference
To work on during 10/02/06-10/17/06: Pisut & Erik @ table 4, Soham
& Yang @ table 5, Avtar & Abbie @ table 6
To work on during 10/23/06-10/31/06: John & Martin @ table 1, Pui
& Amy @ table 2, Se & Jacqueline @ table 3
5) Fresnel and
Fraunhofer Diffraction
To work on during 11/06/06-11/14/06: Pisut & John @ table 1, Soham
& Pui @ table 2, Avtar & Se @ table 3
To work on during 11/20/06-11/28/06: Martin & Erik @ table 4, Amy
& Yang @ table 5, Jacqueline & Abbie @ table 6
6) Fourier Optics
To work on during 11/06/06-11/14/06: Abbie & Martin @ table 4, Erik
& Amy @ table 5, Yang & Jacqueline @ table 6
To work on during 11/20/06-11/28/06: Se & Pisut @ table 1, John
& Soham @ table 2, Pui & Avtar @ table 3
08/28/2006: 1st
lab session - Today you will identify the provided equipment, complete
the
equipment inventory, and align the
laser on your optical bench. The lab benches with odd numbers (1,3,5)
will start setting up experiment 1. The others will set up experiment 2.
08/29/2006: 2st
lab session - Most of you made good progress on labs 1 or 2. I saw some
loose papers in stead of log books. Please buy good notebooks to keep
you log.
Lab report
Each lab report has to contain:
1) Description of goal of
the experiment
2) Description of the
experiment and how the experiment achieves this goal
3) Description of error
analysis
4) Your data
5) Your evaluation
6) Your error analysis
7) An analysis on how the
accuracy could be improved
Quizes and Final Exam
Before you can start your experiment, you have to read the relevant
sections of this manual and of the textbook by Hecht. Then you have to
pass a short oral quiz in the laboratory. Furthermore you must hand in
the report of your previous experiment. The final exam covers the
material that was covered in class as well as
the experiments.