My name is Alexander Fufa
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Fundamentals of Optics
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About the light as a wave and a ray.
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How do You Determine the Focal Length of a Lens?
What is the Optical Power of a Lens?
What is Wavelength?
What is the Phase Velocity of a Wave?
What is the (Angular) Wavenumber?
What is the Refractive Index?
Interference and How The Path Difference Causes It
Double-Slit Experiment with Light
Babinet's Principle: How to Predict Diffraction Patterns
Snell' Law of Refraction: How Light Rays Are Refracted in the Medium
Fermat's Principle: How a Ray of Light Takes the Fastest Path
Brewster's Angle: How Light Is Linearly Polarized
Optical Activity: How to Rotate the Direction of Polarized Light
Rayleigh Criterion: At What Minimum Distance Can Two Objects Be Distinguished?
How Does the Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Work?
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