Waves And GrainsContents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the agenda
PART ONE: REFRACTION
Chapter 2: Following the straight and narrow
Chapter 3: How deep is the ocean? How high is the sky? Imaging in stratified media
3.1 Viewing through flat lenses
3.2 Locating virtual images
3.3 Imaging in a stratified gas
3.4 Imaging in a stratified liquid
3.5 Orbiting rays of light
Appendix: The ray equation
PART TWO: DIFFRACTION AND INTERFERENCE
Chapter 4: Dark spots---bright spots
Chapter 5: Newton's two-knife experiment: the hyperbolic enigma
5.1 A great discovery unpursued
5.2 Pasteboard, knives, and pitch
5.3 Diffraction at a wedge
5.4 The far-field shadow
5.5 The near-field illuminated region
5.6 Wide wedges
5.7 The shape of diffracting waves
Chapter 6: Young's two-slit experiment with electrons
6.1 Predictions
6.2 Making and breaking electrons
6.3 Coherence and interference
6.4 The video---and what it means
Chapter 7: Pursuing the invisible: imaging without lenses
7.1 Images and interference
7.2 Casting shadows
7.3 Brightness, coherence, and degeneracy
7.4 The world's simplest electron interferometer
7.5 Self-imaging of a periodic object
7.6 In-line electron holography: sharpening the image
7.7 Quantum physics in the new millennium
PART THREE POLARISATION
Chapter 8: Poles apart: the mysteries of light polarisation
Chapter 9: The state of light
9.1 Hidden polarisers
9.2 Defining the state of light
9.3 The density matrix
9.4 Transformations
9.5 The elliptical connection
9.6 Optical systems
9.7 A device for all seasons: the photoelastic modulator
9.8 The great PEM puzzle
PART FOUR REFLECTION AND SCATTERING
Chapter 10: The grand synthesis
Chapter 11: New twists on reflection
11.1 The pervasive hand of chiral asymmetry
11.2 Leaps and boundaries
11.3 Constitutive relations
11.4 Helicity waves and chiral reflection
11.5 The chiral Fabry-Perot interferometer
11.6 Gatherings: plus a change...
Appendix: Chiral reflection and transmission amplitudes
Chapter 12: Through a glass brightly: "Fresnel amplification"
12.1 The enigma of enhanced reflection
12.2 Waves in an excited medium
12.3 Beer's law and Fresnel's amplitudes
12.4 Singularities---or is there an upper limit?
12.5 Practical thoughts
Chapter 13: A penetrating look at scattered light
13.1 Harmony of a sphere
13.2 Scattering in a chiral sky
13.3 Seeing through turbidity
Appendix: Density matrix analysis of light scattering
PART FIVE PLAYING WITH WAVES
Chapter 14: Voice of the dragon
14.1 "Hearing" the light
14.2 Dragon notes
14.3 A Bernoulli pump
14.4 The dragon causes friction
PART SIX SCIENCE AND LEARNING
Chapter 15: A heretical experiment in teaching physics
15.1 Self-directed learning
15.2 The "Standard Model"
15.3 Basic premises
15.4 Implementation
15.5 Class work
15.6 Laboratory work
15.7 Out-of-class work
15.8 Assessing the unassessable
15.9 Progressions