This class uses both a theoretical and experimental appraoch to familiarise student engineers
with image formation using optical instruments including the human eye, magnifiers, oculars
and eyepieces, and the microscope, and to understand the basic characteristics of these
instruments.

Students will be introduced to :
- the phenomena of interference and diffraction
- the propagation of electromagnetic waves
- geometrical image construction
- the properties of light
- Homogeneous media
- Wave surfaces
- Huyghens's construction
- Elements of photometry
- Huyghens's principle
- Malus's law
- Fermat's principle
- Plane surfaces
- Prisms
- Spherical surfaces
- Gauss conditions
- Thin lenses
- The wave approach

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