Optics - Physics
- Basic properties of refraction and reflection
- Ideas of object and image
- Laws of reflection
- Plane mirror problems
- Spherical mirror conceptual ideas
- Mirror formula
- Relative motion of mirror and object
- Lateral magnification
- Refraction through plane surfaces (basic ideas)
- Snell's law
- Variable index
- Refraction through a curved surface
- Surface power of a medium
- Deviation caused by medium
- Lenses and their basic properties
- Lens formula and applications
- Magnification
- Combination of lenses
- Silvering of mirrors
- Splitting of lenses
- Relative motion of lens and object
- Lenses and coordinate systems
- Change of focal length of lens placed in different medium
- Basic properties of prisms
- Prism formulae
- Incomplete prisms
- Prisms with different refractive indices
- Silvering of prisms
- Total Internal Reflection (TIR)
- TIR in prisms
- Minimum deviation
- Thin prisms
- Huygens' theory of wavefronts
- Wavefronts at different surfaces
- Conceptual understanding of reflection and refraction
- Young's Double Slit Experiment (YDSE)
- Path difference
- Path difference and phase difference relationship
- Modified YDSE by changing medium
- Shifting of fringes (slab introduction)
- Intensity variation
- YDSE with white light
- Double YDSE problems
- Concept of optical path & optical path difference
- Interference due to thin plates
- Longitudinal magnification
- Systems similar to YDSE