10806119Sight, Color, Lenses and Light
Course Information
Description
Develops a conceptual foundation of a few basic laws and principles of physics. Provides practical lab experience involving the basic laws and principles of physics. Topics covered include motion, light, color, lenses, and basic properties of the human eye.
Total Credits
1
Course Competencies
  1. Examine one-dimensional motion
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you explore the displacement and average velocity of a particle in motion
    you calculate average of various physical events

  2. Examine wave properties
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you find the period, wavelength, amplitude, frequency and velocity of a periodic wave
    you identify the crest and trough of a wave
    you define constructive and destructive interference
    you find the vector resultant of two waves
    you distinguish between fixed-end and free-end reflection

  3. Apply the properties of light
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you explain how light travels through a vacuum
    you find the velocity, wavelength and frequency of light
    you draw ray diagrams illustrating the path of light through a thin film and a prism
    you calculate the shift of light from its original path in a thin film
    you draw a ray diagram illustrating dispersion in a prism

  4. Examine the geometric optical properties of mirrors, lenses, and lens systems
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you identify real and virtual images
    you find the object distance, image distance, and magnification for convex and concave mirrors
    you find the object distance, image distance and magnification for various converging and diverging lenses
    you find the focal length of various lenses
    you find the actual depth given the apparent depth of an object in a fluid when viewed directly above in air

  5. Examine the properties of a double slit interference pattern
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you calculate the wavelength of light using a double slit interference pattern.
    you find the separation between the first and second order maxima in a double slit interference pattern.
    you calculate the difference in path length to bright and dark fringes.
    you find the separation between the first order maxima of different wavelengths.

  6. Examine the properties of a single slit interference pattern
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you identify the central maxima
    you identify dark fringes

  7. Examine the optical properties of a camera
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you find the distance between the lens and film
    you find the magnification
    you find the diameter of the lens
    you calculate f-number
    you find the factor of the change in light, due to change in shutter speed and f-number

  8. Examine the optical properties of the human eye
    Assessment Strategies
    by successfully completing labs, quizzes, problems and exams
    Criteria
    you find the power of the correcting lens for the myopic eye
    you find the power of the correcting lens for the hyperopic eye