Physics 107 Lectures: lecture 37 goals and outline

LECTURE 37
goals and outline

lecture title

Quantized Energy Levels: Lasers and Atomic Clocks

text pages

This lecture is not covered in the text. I have written up supplementary notes for the subject.

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lecture goals

Learn a lot more examples of how photons of light interact with electrons in matter.
Learn what LASER means and the energy level mechanisms that make lasers work.
Learn a bit about holograms, electron microscopes, scanning tunneling microscopes, and fiber optics.
Learn how an atomic clock keeps time.

outline of lecture

1. Interaction of Light with Matter
2. LASERs
3. Other Optical Things
4. Atomic Clocks

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Revised November 30, 1997.

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