SYLLABUS

Theoretical part

1. Introduction (nature and characteristics of light)
2. Geometric optics: light reflection on flat and curved surfaces, mirrors, mirror errors, refraction of light (limit angle, total reflection, refraction through medium with parallel surfaces, refraction through prism, Lenses (lens types, lens errors).

iii. Photometry (photometric quantities, point and extended sources, illuminated surfaces, light intensity, light measuring devices)

1. Optical instruments (the eye, the magnifying glass, the microscope, the camera)
2. Light sources (Hot and cold light sources, Laser)
3. Laser I: Principles of operation and properties of radiation

vii. Laser II: Applications in Graphic Arts (composition analysis and surface treatment, imaging systems, etc.)

viii. Spectroscopy (Principles of optical spectroscopy, methods and analysis of pigments)

1. Physical optics: contribution of light, diffraction and polarization phenomena

Laboratory exercises:

1. Introduction to Physics Lab, Measurements, Measurement Errors, Graphs, Computer Experimental Data Processing
2. Theoretical exercise

iii. Measurements of geometric quantities

1. Light refraction: Find the refractive index
2. Find the refractive index and the angle of total reflection
3. Determining the focal length of the lens Finding the color and spherical error of the lens

vii. Determination of the focal length of a lens system

viii. Spectroscopy I: Calibration and identification of gas from its spectrum.

1. Diffraction of light: Determination of the diameter of twilight grains and holes
2. Polarization: a) confirmation of Mulus’s law, b) finding the material refractive index through the Brewster angle
3. Laser: Principles of operation and properties of radiation

xii. Photometry: Measurement of the polar distribution of a lamp and confirmation of the inverse law of the square of the distance.

xiii. Optical spectroscopy: a) Study of the reflection spectrum of surfaces and b) measurement of color

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Πανεπιστημιακή Φυσική, H. D. Young, Eκδόσεις Παπαζήση, Αθήνα 1994
2. Εφαρμοσμένη Οπτική, Δημήτριος Ζευγώλης, εκδόσεις Τζιόλα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2016
3. Γεωμετρική Οπτική, Σπυριδέλης Ι., Καμπάς Κ. 
4. Γεωμετρική Οπτική, Γιώργος Ασημέλλης, Γιάννης Βαμβακάς, Πάνος Δρακόπουλος 
5. Οπτική, Κ. Αλεξόπουλου και Μαρίνου, εκδόσεις Κοκοτσαλάκη, Αθήνα 1992
6. Πειράματα Οπτικής: Εργαστηριακές ασκήσεις Φυσικής, Ιωάννης Σιανούδης, εκδόσεις Λύχνος, Αθήνα 2005

Additionally, a series of additional educational materials, such as exercises, software, notes and individual excerpts from books, etc. provided through a network, through web pages designed exclusively for use by the students of the course (closed access collection).

1. Hecht Ε., Zajac Α. (1998), Optics, Addison Wesley
2. M. Young (2000), Optics and Lasers, Including Fibers and Optical Waveguides,                   5th ed., Springer, New York
3. Bergmann L., Schaefer C. (1987). Lehrbuch der Experimental Physik, Band 3, W. de Gruyter, Berlin

Demtroeder W. (1996). Laserspectroscopy, Springer Verlag, Berlin

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