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Wednesday |   |
"Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope." --Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), "Remarks," Josh Billings: His Works, Complete, G. W. Dillingham, New York, 1888 (p. 304). Quiz 2 worksheet questions (*.pdf) Chs. 26.12-26.13: Compound Microscopes, Telescopes (*.blog) Converging lens ray tracings (*.swf), (*.gif) (PCCL, select "ray diagram" option) Ex: angular magnification of a microscope (*.blog) Ex: reconstruction of Galileo's telescope (*.blog) Quiz 3 worksheet questions (*.pdf) |
Thursday |   |
Check Twitter announcements: #CuestaPhys205B Review previous reading assignment responses (*.blog) Read Physics, 11/e, Ch. 27.1 Preview online presentation (*.blog) Ch. 26 Problem 91 Physics quiz question: reading glasses used as simple magnifier (*.blog) Physics quiz question: microscope eyepiece used as simple magnifier (*.blog) Physics quiz question: microscope objective lens focal length (*.blog) Physics quiz question: telescope angular magnification (*.blog) Physics final exam problem: telescope construction (*.blog) Due 12:00 AM before start of next class Reading assignment 8 (*.html) Homework report 8 (*.html) |