Difference between revisions of "20.309:Learning outcomes"

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Construct and debug instruments

• Optics lab skills
  • Handle and clean uncoated and coated optics
  • Construct an optical system from components

• Electronics lab skills
  • Use an oscilloscope

Model the behavior of optical and electronic systems

• Behavior of light
  • Wave equation
  • Plane and spherical wave solutions
  • Laws of refraction and reflection
  • Diffraction and interference
  • Relationship of classical and quantum mechanical descriptions of light

• Geometrical optics
  • Understand the paraxial and thin-lens assumptions
  • Determine the function of an optical system by ray tracing

• Circuits
  • Understand resistive dividera
  • Determine Thevenin and Noron equivalent circuits
  • Use input and output impedance to determine the effect of connecting two systems

• Linear systems
  • Model a system with lumped elements
  • Determine the impulse and frequency response of a system
  • Construct a Bode magnitude plot of a system transfer function