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Course: Optics for Experimental Physicists
Department/Abbreviation: SLO/OPT
Year: 2021
Guarantee: 'RNDr. Pavel Pavlíček, Ph.D.'
Annotation: Basic course of optics.
Course review:
1. Basics of photometry.
2. Wave equation, plane wave, spherical wave, phase and group velocity.
3. Huygens - Fresnel principle.
4. Diffraction of light - Fraunhofer diffraction, Fresnel diffraction.
5. Optical phenomena on a boundary, Fresnel formulae, total reflection.
6. Dispersion and scattering of light.
7. Interference of light - interference on a plane-parallel plate, Michelson interferometer, multiple-beam interference, Fabry - Perot interferometer.
8. Young experiment - coherence of light.
9. Propagation of light in an anisotropic medium.
10. Geometrical optics - camera obscura, spherical refractive surfaces, lenses, aberration of lenses.
11. Optical instruments - eye, magnifying glass, microscope, telescope.