Wave Optics

WAVE OPTICS

An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see.

- James Albert Michener

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In this unit, the students are exposed to,

• The wave aspect of light.

• The proof for law of reflection and refraction.

• The phenomena like interference, diffraction and polarisation.

• The terms like magnification and resolving power etc.

• The different optical instruments like microscope, telescope etc.