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PHYS 246Physical Optics

Faculty
Science
Offered
Winter
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Nature of light, wave motion, superposition of waves, interference of light, Fraunhofer diffraction and resolution limit of optical instruments; the diffraction grating and the analysis of light. Fresnel diffraction. Polarized light. Coherence of light, lasers, holography. Fibre Optics.

As printed in the 1973–74 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

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Winter 2013

Advice on courses to take at Waterloo? 11 points, 19 comments

“Hey, I'm currently heading into 1B as a CS Major and up until now I believed that I would be taking Physics courses throughout my undergraduate degree, perhaps getting a minor. …”

u/llill: “Im in cs and i took phys 121 122 and second year optics for my depth requirement. Physics interest me but its too much work and honestly i dont remember anything after the course is over even though …”

u/aimango: “just curious, did you take phys 246 and/or phys 256?”

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In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 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.

1973–74 to 1994–95 22 calendars

Nature of light, wave motion, superposition of waves, interference of light, Fraunhofer diffraction and resolution limit of optical instruments; the diffraction grating and the analysis of light. Fresnel diffraction. Polarized light. Coherence of light, lasers, holography. Fibre Optics.

Prereq: First year physics and calculus

Offered Winter · 3 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit