This schedule is tenative. It may be altered during the semester depending on the ability and needs of the students.
| 1 | Wed | Aug 22 | Introduction to Geometrical Optics | 1.1-1.4 |
| 2 | Mon | Aug 27 | Light waves, rays | 1.5-1.6 |
| 3 | Wed | Aug 29 | refractive index, optical path, Fermat's Principle, Snell's Law | 1.6-1.10 |
| Mon | Sep 3 | Labor Day | ||
| 4 | Wed | Sep 5 | ray refraction, lens specification | 1.11-2.2 |
| 5 | Mon | Sep 10 | edge thickness, paraxial optics and matrices | 2.2-2.3 |
| 6 | Wed | Sep 12 | paraxial ray transfer and refraction, matrix theory | 2.3 |
| 7 | Mon | Sep 17 | Paraxial imaging and conjugate planes | 2.4-2.5 |
| 8 | Wed | Sep 19 | Simple optical systems | 2.6-2.7 |
| 9 | Mon | Sep 24 | (continued) | 2.6-2.7 |
| 10 | Wed | Sep 26 | Longitudinal magnification, depth of field | 2.8-2.10 |
| 11 | Mon | Oct 1 | Test 1 | |
| 12 | Wed | Oct 3 | Paraxial raytrace of stops and pupils | 3.1 |
| 13 | Mon | Oct 8 | Vignetting | 3.2 |
| 14 | Wed | Oct 10 | Lagrange invariant, system synthesis | 3.3 |
| 15 | Mon | Oct 15 | Wavefront aberration, interferometry | 4.1-4.2 |
| 16 | Wed | Oct 17 | Physical Optics demo videos | |
| 17 | Mon | Oct 22 | Transverse ray errors | 4.3-4.5 |
| 18 | Wed | Oct 24 | Catching up | |
| 19 | Mon | Oct 29 | Aberrations (astigmatism + coma) | 5.1 |
| 20 | Wed | Oct 31 | Aberrations (spherical aberration) | 5.1 |
| 22 | Mon | Nov 5 | Field curvature and distortion | 5.2 |
| 21 | Wed | Nov 7 | Test 2 | |
| 23 | Mon | Nov 12 | Aberration calculations | 6.1-6.3 |
| 24 | Wed | Nov 14 | Field Curvature, Petzval theorem | 6.4-6.5 |
| 25 | Mon | Nov 19 | Thin lens aberrations | 7.1 |
| Wed | Nov 21 | Thanksgiving break | ||
| 26 | Mon | Nov 26 | Chromatic aberrations | 6.6-6.7 |
| 27 | Wed | Nov 28 | Stop shift, landscape lens | 7.2-7.4 |
| 28 | Mon | Dec 3 | Achromatic doublet | 7.5-7.6 |
| 29 | Wed | Dec 5 | Introduction to CODE V | |
| 30 | Mon | Dec 10 | Test 3 |
Maintained by John Loomis, updated 20 August 2007