Monday, October 3

• Chapters 23

Tuesday, October 4

• Nobel Prize in Physics and its connection to Chapter 24
• Hawaii observatories

Wednesday, October 5

• Subaru telescope design and images

Thursday, October 6

• Reflection and refraction examples
• Lens defects

Friday, October 7 and Monday, October 10 – No school – Teacher inservice

Tuesday, October 11

• Foreign observatories
• Space observatories

Wednesday, October 12

• Intro. to interference
• Demo: Two speakers with 6000 Hz tone set 2 m apart; move head side to side
• Laser through double slit of 1.05 mm width
• Interference formula derivation

Thursday, October 13

• More interference examples

Friday, October 14

• More interference examples

Monday, October 17

• P. 813, 1-6 due

Tuesday, October 18

• P. 813, 7-8, 10-12
• Go over yesterday's problems

Wednesday, October 19

• Reflection at low and high index of refraction surfaces
• Show reflection and interference demos on DVD 9
• Intro. to surface interference and thin film interference - Keynote

Thursday, October 20

• More slides on interference by reflection
• Diagrams and formulas for thin film and intererface interference

Friday, October 21

• P. 814, 14 to 19 due
• Single slit diffraction
• Demonstrate single slit with laser - vary width of slit
• Example problems to solve for slit width and

Monday, October 24

• P. 814, 20 to 25 due
• go over yesterday's problems

Tuesday, October 25

• Go over Tuesday's problems

Wednesday, October 26

• P. 815, 29 to 34 due
• Go over problems

Thursday, October 27

• Diffraction gratings
  • Demonstrate diffraction grating glasses (used them earlier in the year)
  • show formula
  • prisms vs. diffraction gratings
  • steering beams on CDs and DVDs
  • Reflection gratings (CDs)

Friday, October 28

• More diffraction examples

Monday, November 31

• Polarization Effect of polarizers with photography and sunglasses
• Malus' Law
• 3rd polarizer problem

Tuesday, November 1

• Intro. to Polarization lab
• IMOD displays (Qualcomm device article from Popular Science)
• Polarization and reflection

Wednesday, November 2

• P. 815, 35–39, 46 due
• Intro. to Polarization lab

Thursday, November 3

• Work on Polarization lab

Friday, November 4

• Work on Polarization lab

Monday, November 7

• P. 815, 45, 47–50 due
• Polarization and reflection
• Polarization by scattering
• Optical activity - acrylic demo
• LCDs

Tuesday, November 8

• Go over problems
• More polarization examples

Wednesday, November 9

• Work on lab and problems

Monday, November 14

• Chapter 24 Review Due

Tuesday, November 15

• Chapter 24 Test

Wednesday, November 16

• Polarization Lab Due