Course Plan PH1002E Semester S1 PE
Course Plan PH1002E Semester S1 PE
COURSE OUTLINE
25 3 Buffer class
26 4 Interference by division of wave front and
amplitude (with examples), Two beam
interference (theory)
27 4 Coherent and incoherent beams, fringe
visibility
28 4 Coherence time, Spatial and temporal
coherence
29 4 Young-Double slit experiment (review)
30 4 Michelson interferometer & Mach-Zehnder
interferometer, film thickness measurement
31 4 Buffer class
32 4 Anti-reflection films
33 4 Lasers – Basic properties (monochromaticity
and line width, coherence length comparison,
directionality and half-angle beam spread, and
spectra comparison with ordinary light sources)
34 4 Basic working and major parts of He-Ne laser
35 4 Applications of lasers (we can show a couple a
real applications where mechanical engineers
will be interested)
36 4 Laser beam expanders and collimators
37 4 Diffraction limit and resolution of optical
instruments
38 4 Buffer(If C+ slot is used)
39 4 Buffer(If C+ slot is used)
References:
1. D. J. Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions, Cambridge University
Press, 2008.
2. D. Kleppner and R. J. Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics (1st Edition), McGraw Hill, 2017.
3. Spiegel M. R., Theoretical Mechanics, (Schaum Series), McGraw Hill, 2017.
4. D. Halliday, R. Resnick and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics (10th Edition), John Wiley & Sons,
2013.
5. F. L. Pedrotti, L. M. Pedrotti and L. S. Pedrotti, Introduction to Optics (3rd Edition), Cambridge University
Press, 2017
6. Ajoy Ghatak, Optics (7th Edition), McGraw Hill 2020.
Evaluation Policy
Midterm Test : 30 Marks
Assignment Components: 20 Marks (Assignment / Quiz)
End Examination : 50 Marks
Grading Policy : Relative