2.71 | Spring 2009 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Optics

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Lecture 11: The Hamiltonian formulation; introduction to waves

Topics: Hamiltonian formulation of ray tracing; analogies between Hamiltonian optics and Hamiltonian mechanics; introduction to waves.

Instructors: George Barbastathis, Colin Sheppard

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