COURSE SYLLABUS

ACOUSTICS AND OPTICS

1	Course Title:	ACOUSTICS AND OPTICS
2	Course Code:	FZK3001
3	Type of Course:	Compulsory
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	3
6	Semester:	5
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	6
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	4
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	FZK 2002 Waves Course to be taken
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. AHMET CENGİZ
16	Course Lecturers:
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Ahmet Cengiz B. U. Ü. Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Fizik Bölümü 16059 Görükle Bursa email: acengiz@uludag.edu.tr
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	To enhance the understanding on the basic concepts of vibrations and waves and to establish the relationship between them. In connection therewith, to explain the events such as light and sound with waves.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	Understanding the physics of Acoustic and Optical events.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Learns waves, pulses and wave packets.;
2	Learns spread of waves, the group and phase velocity.;
3	Makes Fourier analysis of pulses and traveling wave packets;
4	Learns of harmonic plane waves the propagation vector.;
5	Understands the properties of water waves and electromagnetic waves.;
6	Learns how an information is transferred using the waves.;
7	Understands the polarization of the light, different polarizations and production of the polarized waves.;
8	Learns the interference and diffraction of the waves.;
9	Learns Huygens’ Principle.;
10	Learns the properties of optical instruments.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	Modulation, Pulses and Wave Packets 1.Group velocity, Phase velocity 2.Pulses
2	3.Fourier Analysis of Pulses
3	4.Fourier Analysis of traveling wave Packet
4	Waves in Two and Three Dimensions 1.Harmonic Plane Waves and Propagation Vector
5	2.Water Waves
6	3.Electromagnetic Waves I. Midterm exam
7	4.Radiation from a Point Charge and Calculation of Emitted Transverse (Perpendicular) Fields
8	Polarization 1.Description of Polarization States
9	2.Production of Polarized Transverse Waves 3.Double Refraction
10	4.Bandwith, Coherence Time and Polarization
11	Interference and Diffraction 1.Interference between Two Coherent Point Sources 2.Interference between Two Independent Sources II. Midterm exam
12	3.How Large Can a Point Light Source Be? 4.Angular Width of a Beam Traveling Waves. Diffraction
13	5.Diffraction and Huygens’ Principle
14	6.Geometrical Optics

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1. A. CENGİZ, Lecture Notes on Acoustic and Optics; 2. F. S. CRAWFORD, JR., Waves (Berkeley physics course-volume 3), Mcgraw-Hill, 1968.
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	2	40
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	0	0
Final Exam	1	60
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		60
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	The system of relative evaluation is applied.
Information

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High