Corequisite major: Physics or Theoretical Physics

Description:

The Optics specialisation builds on majors in either Physics or Theoretical Physics to provide a deeper mastery of Optics.

Learning Goals:

Students who complete the Optics specialisation will be able to:

1. Describe and explain the fundamental principles of optics.
2. Apply the fundamental principles of optics to solve problems, including those likely to be encountered in future careers. Such problems may involve ambiguity and uncertainty and require the application of multiple principles.
3. Describe and explain specific examples of how optics is applied to benefit people.
4. Describe critical experiments in the history of optics and explain how they led to revisions of our theoretical descriptions of optics.
5. Use mathematical, computational and experimental skills to solve conceptual and quantitative problems in optics.
6. Analyse unfamiliar optical systems and provide order-of-magnitude estimates of quantities. This includes a knowledge of basic optical constants and key equations.
7. Be both creative and rigorous in the design and construction of scientific investigations of optical systems.
8. Effectively communicate optics based analyses to expert and non-expert audiences.

Relevant Degrees

• Bachelor of Science (BSC)
• Bachelor of Science (Advanced) (Honours) (ASCAD)