SU LMS

Student Learning Objectives

To recognize the experimental evidence for the wave nature of light.
To understand how and why interference of light waves occurs.
To understand how constructive and destructive interference are related to the path-length difference.
To calculate the interference patterns of double slits.
To understand the conditions for constructive and destructive interference in thin films.
To study the spreading of waves due to diffraction.
To understand how light diffracts through single slits and circular apertures.
To understand how diffraction limits the resolution of optical instruments.

LECTURE 1: Nature of light , d/f theories related to it

LECTURE 2: Interference of light, condition of interference, types of interference

LECTURE 3: Young double slit experiment

LECTURE 4: Analytical treatment of intensity of light in Young double slit experiment

LECTURE 5: Interference in thin films, Newton's ring

LECTURE 6: Michelson interferometer

waves & oscillations WEEK 5-6 : Interference of light