Unit GEOMETRIC OPTICS
- Course
- Optics and optometry
- Study-unit Code
- A002457
- Location
- TERNI
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Luca Gammaitoni
- Teachers
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- Luca Gammaitoni
- Maura Graziani (Codocenza)
- Igor Neri (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 30 ore - Luca Gammaitoni
- 20 ore (Codocenza) - Maura Graziani
- 20 ore (Codocenza) - Igor Neri
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline fisiche
- Academic discipline
- FIS/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Reflection and refraction on flat and spherical surfaces. Lenses, mirrors, optical aberrations. Optical instruments (the eye, microscope, the telescope, the slide projector, the camera, the prism spectroscope, etc.). The polarization of light. The colors.
- Educational objectives
- Provide students with the basic knowledge to understand geometric optics. In this way, our aim is to enable students to understand the principle of operation of the main optical instruments. Moreover, the student should be prepared to carry out experiments in the lab, having clear in mind the relevant theoretical foundations and implementing a correct experimental methodology, also considering the data analysis and error handling.
The main skills that the course aims to transmit are:
- be able to use the fundamental physical laws of geometric optics to understand the reflection and refraction of light and its possible applications in optical technologies.