This is the homepage for HI2243-The History of Light - Fall Semeseter 2012, NYU-Poly.  Choose from the selection below.  This page will be updated periodically.

• Syllabus
• Modified syllabus
• Modified syllabus (final version)

• Extra Credit (due Tues, Dec 11)
  

• Lecture Notes
• 01.  Wave Theory of Light:  Introduction
• 02.  Wave Theory of Light:  Malus and Polarization
• 03.  Wave Theory of Light:  Arago and Biot
• 04.  Wave Theory of Light:  Fresnel's Ray Theory of Diffraction
• 05.  Wave Theory of Light:  Huygens's Principle and the Wave Theory
• 06.  Wave Theory of Light:  The Wave Theory, cont.
• 07.  Wave Theory of Light:  Fresnel's Unification
• 08.  Ampère to Einstein:  Ampère and Faraday
• 09.  Ampère to Einstein:  Fields and Lines of Force
  
• 10.  Ampère to Einstein:  Maxwell
• 11.  Maxwellians:  FitzGerald and Lodge
• 12.  Maxwellians:  Heaviside, Telegraphy and Ether Models
• 13.  Maxwellians:  Maxwell's Equations and EM Waves
• 14.  Maxwellians:  The Maxwellian Heyday
• 15.  Maxwellians:  The Advent of the Electron
  

• Studyguide Questions
• 01. Buchwald Chapters 1-2
• 02. Buchwald Chapters 3-5
• 03. Buchwald Chapters 6-9
• 04. Buchwald Chapters 10-12
• 05. Darrigol Chapters 1, 3, 4
• 06. Hunt Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
• 07. Hunt Chapters 5, 6, 7
  

• Paper Topics
• Paper #1 (due Tues Oct 2)
• Paper #2 (due Tues Nov 6)
• Paper #3 (due Tues Dec 11)
  

• Paper Guidelines