At the end of the semester student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- Understand light and why it is a wave
- understand geometrical optics with the goal of understanding what an image is and where it is located with respect to different optical systems
- use matrix methods in the analysis of the optical systems using paraxial rays
- understand aberrations and qualitatively understand how and why images become distorted
- understand basic optical instruments used in the formation of images
- understand basic optical instruments used in spectroscopy
- understand what are travelling and standing waves
- understand coherence and basic principles of superposition
- Explain and formulate the interference, diffraction and polarization effects.