Physics 428 - Applied Optics - Fall 2005

Homework assignments

    Homework assignments are due in class on the due date.  This list will be updated as I assign new problem sets. 

Set # 1  -  Ch. 2  -  Problems  3, 17, 19, 22, 32, 34 and for grad students also do Prob. 27, 28, 29  -  due Wed. Aug. 31

Set # 2  -  Ch. 3  -  Problems  1, 7, 13, 14, 18, 22, 31, 44 and grads: Prob. 5, 26, 45  -  due Fri. Sept. 16

Set # 3  -  Ch. 4  -  Problems  2, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 21, 24, 26, 27 and grads: Prob. 32 and 34  -  due Fri. Sept. 23

Set # 4  -  Ch. 4  -  Problems  38, 40, 42, 54, 58  -  due Fri. Sept. 30

Set # 5  -  Ch. 5  -  Problems  5, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 23, 31, 33, 40, 48, 59 and grads: Prob. 32, 44, 61, 67, 74  - due Mon. Oct. 17

Set # 6  -  Ch. 7  -  Problems  3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17  -  due Wed. Nov. 2

Set # 7  -  Ch. 7  -  Problems  18, 19, 28, 29, 33 (see fig. 7.30 on p. 307, not fig. 7.20), 36  -  due Wed. Nov. 9

Set # 8  -  Ch. 8  -  Problems  1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 18, 28  -  due Fri. Dec. 2

Set # 9  -  Ch. 9  -  Problems  5, 6, 10, 13, 19, 28, 47  -  due Wed. Dec. 7

The final exam will be on Monday, Dec. 12 at 3 p.m.

Synthetic aperture radar image of a wake, to illustrate group velocity of Rayleigh waves on water, for which v_g = 0.5 v_p: 

Notice how the long wavelength waves are getting ahead of the packet.  Also try to determine how the group velocity vs. phase velocity means that the crests are appearing at the back of the packet and moving forward in the packet toward the front.