PH 243: Optics Laboratory

Fall, 2009

• Syllabus

Assignment 1: Due 9/10/2009

Note that many people make a big deal out of relative uncertainty. Very few journals actually use relative uncertainties. It is much more common to see results reported with absolute uncertainties. All of the assigned problems, except number 2, require the uncertainties reported along with the computed value as absolute, not relative, uncertainties.

Solutions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8.

Optics Laboratory Experiments:

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
9/1	Introduction, Uncertainty Analysis
9/8	Optical Activity Of Sugar	Dispersion Curve Of Glass	Holography
9/15
9/22
9/29	Individual Meetings
10/6	Dispersion Curve of Glass	Holography	Optical Activity of Sugar
10/13
10/27
11/3	Individual Meetings
11/10	Holography	Optical Activity of Sugar	Dispersion Curve of Glass
11/17
11/24
12/1	Individual Meetings

Presentation abstracts are due on the day of the individual meetings. Presentations are due on the first day of the next set of lab sessions: 10/6, 11/10, and 12/8.