Optics Outreach Program

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Optics Outreach Program

• Who Are We and What Do We Do?

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Optical Engineering You

• Optics Outreach
• College of Optical Sciences

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What is the Program?

• Students
• Learn invaluable speaking skills
• Create interactive presentations for high school
  students
• Develop high and low tech demonstrations
• Participate in on-campus recruitment activities
• HAVE FUN!!!!

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Agenda

• Website
• Presentations
• Demonstrations
• Faculty and Students
• QA

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Website
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Outreach Website

• Provides information and resources for students
• Interactive forms for information requests and
  feedback
• Updated regularly

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Presentations
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Presentation

• Conveys important information about the college
  to high school students
• Keeps students interested
• Sets up demonstrations
• Constantly adapting to high school students
  input
• 3 different presentations

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• Presentation 1
• Standard

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College Demographics

• 149 Undergraduate Students
• Average class size 30 students
• 30 minority
• 17 female

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Additional Specializations

• Electronics (Gadget Students?)
• Materials (Aspiring Chemists?)
• Mechanics (Grease Monkeys?)
• Aside from core curriculum each student
• has the opportunity to specialize in an
• area of choice consisting of approximately
• 6 courses.

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• Presentation 2
• Trivia

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Why is the sky blue?

• The sun is really blue, not yellow
• The sun reflects off the ocean
• Blue light scatters more in the air
• The air up high is colder and more blue

• Blue light scatters more in the air
• Rayleigh scattering off of sub- wavelength
  (under 400 nanometer in diameter) particles
  causes light to scatter as 1/?4. Therefore,
  blue light (shorter wavelength) scatters more
  than red light (longer wavelength).

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How are rainbows made?

• Little leprechauns pull out their pot of gold
• Sunlight reflects off the water on the ground
• Refraction at the surface of water drops causes
  the light to disperse
• Sunlight disperses while traveling through rain
  clouds

• Refraction at the surface of water drops causes
  the light to disperse
• Sunlight from behind an observer refracts at
  the front surface of the raindrop, then reflects
  at the rear due to Total Internal Reflection.
  Finally, a second refraction causes the light to
  disperse again. Red is always on the outside
  and violet on the inside.

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• Presentation 3
• Jeopardy

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Questions
Telescopes
Colors
Displays
Nature
Eye
Famous People
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Telescopes 300
Lowell Observatory
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This observatory in Northern Arizona was used to
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Telescopes 300
Lowell Observatory
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Eye 300
Cones
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The photoreceptors that are responsible for color
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Eye 300
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Telescopes
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Demonstrations
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Demonstrations

• IR Camera
• Laser Music Transmitter
• Laser Light Show
• External Laser Cavity
• Color Mixing with Integrating Sphere
• Prisms Refraction and Reflection
• Computer Generated Holography

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Faculty and Students
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Faculty and Students

• Dr. Mike Nofziger
• Outreach Coordinator, Lecturer
• Mr. Kevin Erwin
• Laboratory Administrator
• Allison Huff
• Undergraduate Academic Advisor
• Dr. Carl Maes
• Academic Associate Dean
• 9 students

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Your Future Starts Here!

• http//www.optics.arizona.edu/
• outreach