This document discusses geometrical optics and includes the following key points:
- It introduces lenses, mirrors, interference, and diffraction which will be covered in the upcoming weeks. There will be a quiz on Friday.
- The remaining material this semester will be covered on the final exam on December 12th, with another exam possibly on December 2nd.
- Questions about images formed by lenses and mirrors include the type of image, locations of object and image, orientation, and size.
- Sign conventions are important in geometrical optics problems, with distances measured as positive or negative depending on location relative to the optical element.
- Paraxial approximation allows treating small ray angles as equal to their sines