These are the course materials for the ‘Introduction to Optics’ course I taught at Dartmouth College, Fall 2017. Included are lecture notes, lecture slides, homework sets, exams, and quizzes. Lots of fun topics are covered. If you find them useful, please use them!
Perhaps not a question that has come to every persons’s mind, but it’s happened to me once or twice, so let’s take a look at it. If you move in the right circles, it’s actually a problem of some consequence. How to make a nice clean magnetic field? Helmholtz coils …
So you’ve got some raw data and a complicated model you’re absolutely sure describes it. How to go about comparing the two in python? Answer: non-linear, least-squares fitting! It’s easy enough in 1D, but how about over two independent dimensions? Or more than 2D?! Let’s find out…
Yes, that’s right… we’re in free evolution! There’s no pre-determined goal or end state this site is reaching. It’s here basically by whimsy. But, as some billionaire candy baron once said, “A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.” So, let’s slap a picture of a …
