Kenyon, The Light Fantastic, Second Ed.

OpenStax, University Physics Vol. 3

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Physics 360: Optics

University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

Alternate texts:

• Bennett - Principles of Physical Optics Wiley (2022)
• Kress and Meyrueis - Applied Digital Optics Wiley (2009)

Useful Links

• LabArchives-eLabbook
• MATLAB / Octave
• PYTHON Colaboratory (Google) online Python development environment and compiler
• HyperPhysics A hyperlinked concept map of physics topics. Very useful!
• OSA - OpticsNet Because optics is cool.
• Photonics.com Optics related publications, news, technologies, and more.
• May 16 is the International Day of Light
• 2015 was the International Year of Light

Applets used in class:

Things that work:

• Thin Lens HTML5 version.
• Color mixing HTML5
• Fourier sum examples.
• UC Boulder's Physics Simulator Applets Very fun and useful site!
• Paul Falstad's Physics Applets. Excellent and intricate Physics and Math applets.

Things that require Java so probably won't work for you:


• Universitat de Barcelona Applets
• Thin Lens (Java)
• Thick Lens (Java)
• Adding Waves (Java)
• Fourier Series (Java)