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PHYS 226Geometrical Optics

Faculty
Science
Offered
Fall
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1970–71 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Fermat's principle, reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, thin and thick lenses, optical instruments such as magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, spectrometers, normal magnification. Not for students in the Honours Physics program

As printed in the 1990–91 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: First year physics and calculus

Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention PHYS 226, May 2014 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2017

How is PHYS 226? 2 points, 2 comments

u/CyberVin: “Hey everyone, I'm planning on taking PHYS 226 (Geometrical Optics) to finish my depth requirement as a CS student. The course is online and there isn't any info on UWFLOW, so if you've taken it, can you tell me if it's manageable.”

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Spring 2014

Check it elsewhere

In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1970–71 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1990–91 to 1994–95 5 calendars

Fermat's principle, reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, thin and thick lenses, optical instruments such as magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, spectrometers, normal magnification.

Not for students in the Honours Physics program

Prereq: First year physics and calculus

Offered Fall · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit

1970–71 to 1989–90 20 calendars

Titled Optics 1.

Reflection and refraction at plane and curved surfaces, thin and thick lenses, optical instruments.

Prereq: First year physics and calculus. Not for Hons. Physics students. Physics Majors must take PHYS 226L with this course.

Offered Fall · 2 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit