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**Determine the function of an optical system by ray tracing
 
**Determine the function of an optical system by ray tracing
  
*Circuits
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===Circuits===
**Understand resistive dividera
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*Model electronic circuits with ideal lumped elements
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**Understand resistive divider
 
**Determine Thevenin and Noron equivalent circuits
 
**Determine Thevenin and Noron equivalent circuits
 
**Use input and output impedance to determine the effect of connecting two systems
 
**Use input and output impedance to determine the effect of connecting two systems
  
 
*Linear systems
 
*Linear systems
**Model a system with lumped elements
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**Solve systems of lumped elements
 
**Determine the impulse and frequency response of a system
 
**Determine the impulse and frequency response of a system
 
**Construct a Bode magnitude plot of a system transfer function
 
**Construct a Bode magnitude plot of a system transfer function

Revision as of 01:15, 26 May 2010

Construct and debug instruments

  • Optics lab skills
    • Handle and clean uncoated and coated optics
    • Construct an optical system from components
  • Electronics lab skills
    • Use an oscilloscope

Model the behavior of optical and electronic systems

  • Behavior of light
    • Wave equation
    • Plane and spherical wave solutions
    • Laws of refraction and reflection
    • Diffraction and interference
    • Relationship of classical and quantum mechanical descriptions of light
  • Geometrical optics
    • Understand the paraxial and thin-lens assumptions
    • Determine the function of an optical system by ray tracing

Circuits

  • Model electronic circuits with ideal lumped elements
    • Understand resistive divider
    • Determine Thevenin and Noron equivalent circuits
    • Use input and output impedance to determine the effect of connecting two systems
  • Linear systems
    • Solve systems of lumped elements
    • Determine the impulse and frequency response of a system
    • Construct a Bode magnitude plot of a system transfer function