Textbook: Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography

Authors: David Falk, Dieter Brill and David Stork

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 0-471-60385-6

In addition to the textbook, you will need a calculator that can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A model that also can take squares roots is desirable but not required. A calculator that can compute other functions (sine, cosine, etc.) is acceptable but not required. You will probably find it useful to get a model that can accept and display numbers in scientific notation. You should practice using your calculator using simple examples that you can also solve mentally.

The course will emphasize concepts and ideas, and there will be little or no algebra or other mathematics. However, I will expect that you will be able to do arithmetical calculations using a calculator and that you can handle simple relationships such as distance= rate*time.

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