ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Applied Physics
Areas: Optics
Center Faculty of Physics
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1.- To describe the fundamentals of geometrical optics for its application to the study and design of optical instrumentation.
2.-To identify the fundamentals (concepts, principles and properties) of light polarization and to show how to analyze the states of polarized light.
3.-To identify and analyze the fundamentals of the propagation of light in material media and the phenomena that occur at the boundaries separating these media.
4. To familiarize the student with the classical fundamentals of light-matter interaction and its most relevant optical implications 5.
Learning results:
After taking the subject the student will demonstrate:
-To know how to represent light disturbances as scalar and vector waves as well as their propagation in material media.
-To know how to identify, analyze and manipulate pure and mixed polarization states.
-To know the physics of optical phenomena and/or optical materials that transform polarization states (boundaries, anisotropies, etc.).
-To know how to explain in a classical way light-matter interaction phenomena: light generation, light absorption and detection, light scattering, light diffusion, etc.
-To know how to represent light by means of luminous rays and to know how to apply the laws and rules of geometrical optics to solve questions and problems related to instrumental optics.
-To acquire solid foundations for Masters that require fundamental knowledge of geometrical optics and electromagnetic optics.
-Paraxial optics: paraxial approximation; cardinal elements; correspondence equations; ABCD law.
-Real Optical Systems: ray limitation; third order aberrations.
-Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory of Light: Maxwell's equations and material equations; boundary conditions; radiant energy: Poynting vector.
-Propagation of Light in Material Media: wave equation; propagation of waves and energy in homogeneous and isotropic dielectric media, in uniaxial and biaxial crystals and in conductors.
-Frontier phenomena: reflection and refraction in homogeneous and isotropic dielectric media: Brewster angle and total reflection; reflection and refraction in conductors; birefringence.
Radiation-matter interaction: absorption, scattering and the microscopic origin of the refractive index.
-Polarization: pure states of polarization, natural and partially polarized light. Polarization devices: polarizers and retarders.
Basic bibliography.
- "Optics", E.Hecht ,Pearson Educacion S.A, 5th ed., 2017.
- "Optical Physics", A. Lipson et al., Cambridge University Press, 4th Ed., 2011.
- "Physical Optics", S. A. Akhmanov, S.Y. Nikitin. Oxford University Press, 1997
- "Óptica electromagnética" J.M. Cabrera, F. Jesús López, F. Agulló López, Addison-Wesley Iberoamericana, 1993.
Complementary bibliography
- Principles of Optics, M.Born and E. Wolf, Pergamon Press, 7th ed.(expanded), 2002.
- Advanced Optics. M. L. Calvo (coord.), Ariel Ciencia, 2002.
Problem Books
-100 Problemas de Optica, P.M.Mejías y R.Martínez, Alianza Editorial, 1996.
- Optica Física: Problemas y ejercicios resueltos. F.Carreño, M.A.Antón, 2001.
Teaching staff of the subject will specify in the Virtual Campus which bibliographic material can be found in electronic format in the USC library when the funds are available as well as other resources such as web pages, blogs, etc.
BASIC AND GENERAL
CB1 - That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in an area of study that starts from the base of education
general secondary school, and is usually found at a level that, while supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that
they imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of their field of study.
CB2 - That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually
demonstrate by means of the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
CB3 - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their area of study) to issue
judgments that include a reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
CG1 - Possess and understand the most important concepts, methods and results of the different branches of Physics, with a historical perspective of their development.
CG2 - Have the capacity to gather and interpret data, information and relevant results, obtain conclusions and issue reasoned reports in
scientific, technological or other problems that require the use of knowledge of Physics.
CG3 - Apply both the theoretical and practical knowledge acquired as well as the capacity for analysis and abstraction in the definition and
approach of problems and in the search of their solutions both in academic and professional contexts.
TRANSVERSALS
CT1 - Acquire analysis and synthesis capacity.
CT2 - Have the capacity for organization and planning.
CT5 - Develop critical reasoning.
SPECIFIC
CE1 - Have a good understanding of the most important physical theories, locating in their logical and mathematical structure, their experimental support
and the physical phenomenon that can be described through them.
CE2 - Be able to clearly handle orders of magnitude and make appropriate estimates in order to develop a clear perception of
situations that, although physically different, show some analogy, allowing the use of known solutions to new problems.
CE5 - Be able to perform the essentials of a process or situation and establish a working model of it, as well as perform the approximations
required in order to reduce the problem to a manageable level. He will demonstrate critical thinking to build physical models.
CE6 - Understand and master the use of mathematical and numerical methods most commonly used in Physics
CE8 - Be able to manage, search and use bibliography, as well as any source of relevant information and apply it to research and technical development of projects
A course will be activated in the Moodle platform of the Virtual Campus, to which information of interest to the student will be uploaded, as well as diverse teaching material.
-Class organization: lectures where the conceptual and formal theoretical aspects of geometrical optics and electromagnetic optics will be presented and interactive classes in order to deepen the theoretical aspects and to acquire skills for the approach and resolution of exercises and problems. As far as possible, the relationship of optics with other subjects of the degree will be shown.
Method of exposure-interaction: students will be provided with material (in pdf, ppt, photocopies, etc., via virtual classroom) where the development of the theoretical contents that are explained in the classroom as well as exercises and problems for the student's personal work are collected, stressing that they are not notes but a follow-up material of both expository and interactive classes.
-Reinforcement activities: after sufficient content has been taught, students will be proposed the resolution of exercises and/or problems, and even, as far as possible, the completion of work and/or activities, to help them assimilate and deepen the contents of the subject.
The tutorials may be face-to-face or telematic, in both cases will require an appointment.
The evaluation system consists of two complementary parts:
(a) continuous evaluation, which consists of two or three face-to-face controls, depending on the restrictions imposed by the academic calendar. These controls allow the student to eliminate subjects if their grade is higher than 5 out of 10 and take place outside class hours. In order to participate in a given examination, the student must have attended at least 50% of the lectures associated with that examination, except in exceptional and duly justified cases.
(b) Evaluation by means of an in-person final examination to be held on the official dates set by the Centre. The final examination will be divided into several parts. The first part shall correspond to the subject on which no examination was carried out; the remaining parts shall correspond to the subject on which the various continuous assessment examinations were carried out. In order to pass the subject, the student must take the parts not passed in the checks and must obtain a minimum of 3 points out of 10 in each of the parts in which he/she takes the examination.
A student who has passed one or more of the controls may take the corresponding part of the final examination. In this case, the student will be awarded the maximum qualification of the continuous assessment mark and the final assessment mark in each of the parts, provided that he/she obtains at least 3 points out of 10 in the latter.
Subject to the above, the student's qualification at the first opportunity will correspond to a weighted average of the marks corresponding to each part of the examination or corresponding controls.
The student's qualification at the second opportunity will be the mark obtained in the corresponding official examination. The marks of the continuous assessment controls are not taken into account in the second opportunity.
Repeating students are subject to the same grading system as students taking the subject for the first time.
In cases of cheating in exercises or tests, the system set out in the Regulations on the Assessment of Students' Academic Performance and the Verification of Qualifications will be applied.
-Study time/Personal work:
Presential work:
- 32 hours expository class
- 24 hours of Interactive class.
- 4 tutoring hours .
Personal work
- 75 hours of autonomous study
- 15 hours of solving exercises and writing other works
-It is recommended to review the basic concepts of waves received in the degree.
It is recommended an updated study of the subject (theory and exercises) for its adequate follow-up, as well as not to memorize the subject but to pay attention to its comprehension.
-Recommended prerequisites: General Physics I-II, Mathematical Methods I-VI.
Raul De La Fuente Carballo
Coordinador/a- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813519
- raul.delafuente [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Maria Dolores Mouriz Cereijo
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813519
- mariadolores.mouriz [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Xesus Prieto Blanco
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813506
- xesus.prieto.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Mª Carmen Bao Varela
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- Phone
- 881813512
- carmen.bao [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Yago Arosa Lobato
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.arosa.lobato [at] usc.es
- Category
- Xunta Post-doctoral Contract
Alejandro Doval Casas
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- alejandrodoval.casas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
Yago Radziunas Salinas
- Department
- Applied Physics
- Area
- Optics
- yago.radziunas.salinas [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Pre-doctoral Contract
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