Tuesday, April 8, 2008

HPS Nature of Light

In Class:
  • Peer grading of HPS HW 9.1: EM Waves Research Project.
  • Short lecture on how light works:
    • Inverse square law of light intensity
    • Illumination of objects
Homework (due Wed 4/9/2008):
  • Read pp. 558-565; pp. 574-577 (parts on polarized light and lasers).
  • Attempt to do some of the ray diagrams in HPS Notes 9.1: Ray Diagrams. We'll go over these tomorrow, now that we better understand the nature of light.
No videos today.
  • Sorry, forgot to video the nature of light lecture... would probably have been a good one to record.