The course described replaces the optics course in the undergraduate curriculum. It is believed that the course described provides the student with a more interesting approach to the subject of optics, allows a better understanding of the relationship optics plays to the other fields of physics, and above all, gives a much better knowledge of the fundamental principles of the subject.

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