2.71/2.710  Optics

Final exam papers pick-up

The final exam papers and other unclaimed hand-ins will be available for pickup from room 3-461 starting this Friday May 23. They will be there until the end of June; afterwards they will be shredded. If you need to make special arrangements to pick up your final exam paper (e.g. if you'd like us to mail it to you at your summer address) please contact Kate (kateand@mit.edu).

Announced on 21 May 2008  3:27  p.m. by George Barbastathis

Final announcements

1) The rules for the final exam are the same as in the quizes: you may use any printed materials or your own notes, but no electronic devices, just like in an airplane during take-off or landing.

2) The solution to Quiz 1 and notes on depth of focus have been posted. (Included in the notes are also some comments on deconvolution; for those interested in the physics and math of image formation in general, 2.717 will be offered most likely in F09 and will greatly expand on deconvolutions and nonlinear image processing techniques.)

3) Look out for the solution to HW9, which will be posted later this evening. And don't forget to turn in HW9 before 5pm today, if you haven't already done so.

4) When you study for the final, at the minimum you should cover the notes, the practice problem sets, and the solutions to the homework sets and quizes. The textbooks are great resource in explaining the subtleties in more detail and also for additional problems to practice the concepts. You may quote from any of these sources (notes/practice problems/solutions to homeworks and quizes/textbooks) in your solutions to the final exam problems.

5) Feel free to post questions in the class forum. Nader and I will be checking regularly and posting answers as quickly as we can. However, please don't count on us to post answers in the wee hours before the final exam. We'll sleep and so should you.

Thanks to everyone for a great semester, and have a nice summer.

Announced on 14 May 2008  2:39  p.m. by George Barbastathis

Optics subject evaluation

Online subject evaluations for MechE subjects are now open to students. Please complete the 2.71/2.710 evaluation at this link:

http://web.mit.edu/surveys/subjecteval/

The evaluations will remain open for ten more days, until 5 pm on 5/16.

Announced on 07 May 2008  6:16  a.m. by George Barbastathis

Rescheduling project presentations

Announced on 01 May 2008  1:16  a.m. by Nader Shaar

Problem Set 9

... has been posted. It's composed of problems given in past final exams (except problem 4, which is a variation upon a problem given in Goodman) and it's due on Friday May 9th.

Announced on 30 April 2008  1:59  p.m. by George Barbastathis