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Overview

Objectives: This course provides an understanding of geometric and physical optics. It is the first optics course in the Vision Science/Clinical Optometry program. This course will be delivered by lectures, laboratory classes and tutorial exercises designed to present, with least complexity, concepts in optics relevant to optometry & vision science.… For more content click the Read More button below.

Objectives: This course provides an understanding of geometric and physical optics. It is the first optics course in the Vision Science/Clinical Optometry program. This course will be delivered by lectures, laboratory classes and tutorial exercises designed to present, with least complexity, concepts in optics relevant to optometry & vision science.

Brief curriculum:

Geometrical optics: Basics of light and light propagation, rectilinear propagation of light, refraction and reflection at the plane and spherical surfaces, prisms, thin lenses, thick lenses, optical systems with multiple surfaces, simple magnifiers, compound magnifiers, telescopes, microscopes, stops, pupils and windows.

Physical optics: The wave nature of light, superposition of waves, interference, diffraction, and polarisation.

Course Attributes

Introductory Course

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

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Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$994
Domestic Students	$5970
International Students	$5970

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Study Level
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Undergraduate

Offering Terms
Depending on the Academic Calendar type, an offering term generally refers to an academic teaching period of between 8-13 weeks in duration.

Term 2

Campus

Sydney

Academic Calendar

Field of Education

019999 Natural and Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified

Geometrical and Physical Optics

VISN1111

6 Units of Credit