Chapter 8 Optics
In this chapter you will learn how to model light.
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Draw ray diagrams using the Ray Model for Light.
- Explain how light is reflected and refracted upon hitting a surface or entering a medium.
- Apply the law of refraction to determine how light travels through different mediums.
- Explain how images are produced by flat and curved mirrors.
- Explain how lenses work.
- Define the wave model for light.
- Differentiate between the wave and ray models for light, and explain in what cases they are most useful.
- Apply the small angle approximation.
- Define constructive and destructive interference.
- Explain how diffration is produced.
- List different optical phenomenon and explain the fundamental concepts behind them.
- Define the quantum model for light.
