555 AP Physics B Unit 8 Geometric Optics

By the end of this unit, a successful student will be able to:

• Distinguish between real and virtual images
• Use ray tracing as well as algebraic formulae to:
  • Predict whether a real or virtual image will be formed from a mirror, lens, or simple combinations of multiple mirrors or lenses
  • determine the magnification of such an image
  • predict the location of an image given the focal length and object distance
• Given the curvature of a mirror, or of both sides of a lens, determine whether that optical piece is convergent or divergent
• Relate the different regions of the EM spectrum to their relative wavelengths, frequencies and energies

All assignments are due on the date listed. That is not the date they are assigned.

Due Date Day Assignment

4/26 Thu Read: 23-1 --> 23-9

4/26 Thu 1/2 Day – Parent Conferences

5/2 Wed Do: Lenses, mirror, telescopes lab

5/3 Thu Do: 23: 1,7,13,15,22,23,28,31,32,36,43,46,49,58,61

5/3 Thu Test: Geometric Optics

5/3-5/4 Thu-Fri Music trip

5/4-5/11 Fri-Fri Various review questions TBA

5/7 Mon AP’s begin

5/8 Tue 1/2 Day

5/9 Wed Progress Reports

5/14 Mon Physics AP’s

5/18 Fri Prom

5/21-5/22 Mon-Tue Independent Labs

5/23-5/25 Wed-Fri Senior Trip

6/1 Fri Graduation

6/1 Fri Graduation

• Prentice Hall's web page on Giancoli Chapter 23
• Halliday, Resnick and Walker's page on Chapter 34, Electromagnetic Waves (Calculus based)
• Halliday, Resnick and Walker's page on Chapter 35, Images (Calculus based)
• The Wikipedia article on The History of Optics traced things fairly well up to but not including the Enlightenment at last check.
• Robert Fitzpatrick has a great series of lecture notes with diagrams on Geometric Optics as part of a broader non-calculus course on E&M and optics at the University of Texas which ran in 1999.