Understanding optics with Python

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Content: Propagation of light - wave function, spherical and cylindrical waves. Inverse square law. Law of refraction. Huygen's principle. Fresnel reflection. Total internal reflection and critical angle. Chromatic dispersion. Prisms. Mirrors - plane and spherical mirrors. Power of spherical surfaces, lenses. Object/image relationships and ray tracing. Thin lens comibinations. Thick lenses and lens systems. Matrix formulation. Cylindrical lenses - interval of sturm. Superposition. Two slit and multiple slit interference. Simple interferometers - michaelson, mach zhender. Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction. Diffraction through apertures: square, rectangle, circular. diffraction: single, double, multiple slits. Resolution. Fresnel diffraction - cornu spiral. Polarization - linear, cricular, elliptical. Brewster's angle. Malus's law. Optical activity. Quarter and halfwave plates. Jones matrices. Maxwell equations, and radiometry and photometry