Chapter 18 & 19 in Knight Book // Chapter 25.6, 25.7, 26 in OpenStax Online book 

Includes Light Basics, Diffraction, Refraction, Thin Film Interference

Unit Objectives (what you should end up knowing)

Lecture Videos

• Duffy Videos

  • Refraction

  • Lenses

• Doc Physics Videos

  • Geometric Optics

  • Optical Systems

• Video Tutorial from Monterey: 

  • Mirrors

  • Lenses

• Crash Course

  • Maxwell's Equations

  • Light as Waves

  • Spectra Interference

Notes

• • Chapter Summary

  • Chapter Notes

  • Extra Notes on Mirrors [courtesty of Prof. Duffy at BU]

  • Extra Notes on Lenses [courtesty of Prof. Duffy at BU]

Labs and Simulations

• • • Mirror and Lenses Lab

• • Simulations

    • Phet Geometric Optics Simulation Sim1

    • Physics Classroom Lens Simulation Sim2

    • Physics Classroom Mirror Simulation

    • Name that Image (Ray Diagram Practice)

    • KET Optics Bench Simulation

Unit Development

• • Lens Ray Diagrams [solutions] [number answers]

  • Lens Worksheet 1 [solutions]

  • Lens Worksheet 2 [solutions]

  • Mirror Worksheet [solutions] [number answers]

  • AP Sample Problem Packet [solutions]

Extra Stuff

• • Other YouTube Videos

    • Why does light slow down in glass? (Sixty Symbols)

    • Double Slit Diffraction (Veritasium)

    • Diffraction of a Single Photon (Veritasium)

    • Diffraction and Canadian Money (SteveMould)