Chapter 17, 25.5, 25.6 in Knight Book // Chapter 24, 27, 25.2 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

  • Diffraction

  • Thin-film Interference

• Doc Physics Videos

  • Wave Interference Review

  • Wave Interference Review Part II

  • Huygens Principle

  • Double Slit Diffraction

  • Single Slit Diffraction

  • Poisson's Spot

  • Thin Film Interference

  • DVD Diffraction

  • Diffraction Gratings

  • X-Ray Diffraction

  • Intro to Reflection

  • Diffuse/Specular-Regular Reflection

  • Intro to Refraction

  • Full List:

    • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLUpvzaZLf3KRRaeMVudt1G-iuclmAbfw

• Video Tutorial from Monterey:

  • Light

  • Diffraction

  • Reflection/Refraction

• Demo Videos (Open University)

  • Water Wave Diffraction

• Crash Course

  • Maxwell's Equations

  • Light as Waves

  • Spectra Interference

Notes

• • Chapter Summary

  • Lecture Notes: Waves | Light | Diffraction | Thin Films | Refraction

  • Extra Notes

Labs and Simulations

• • Diffraction Lab

  • Refraction Lab

Unit Development

• • Example Problems [solutions]

  • AP 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)

• Simulations

  • EM Wave Simulation: http://www.surendranath.org/Applets/Waves/EMWave/EMWave.html

  • Lens Animation: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=1395.0

  • Virtual Optics Bench: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=48

  • Phet Optics Bench: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/geometric-optics/geometric-optics_en.html