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Major Topics in Optics
Optics Introduction to theories of light

Interference of light
  • Coherent sources
  • Young's double slit eperiment
  • expression for path difference
  • conditions for constructive and destructive interference
  • width of interference fringes

    Diffraction of light:
  • Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction
  • Fraunhofer diffraction through a single slit (qualitative explanation)
  • limit of resolution
  • Rayleigh's criterion
  • resolving powers of telescopes and microscope

    Polarisation of light
  • transverse nature of light waves
  • methods of producing plane polarised light
  • Brewster's law
  • double refraction
  • dichroism
  • polariods and their applications
  • optical activity and specific rotation
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