The S207 (The physical world) tutorial is face-to-face for Book 6 (Dynamic fields and waves). It will be followed a couple of week later with an Elluminate sesion.
The topics the students should have covered at this point are time-varying magnetic fields and induction, waves and ray optics.
The TMA has questions on induction, diffraction and relativity. I plan to leave relativity to the Elluminate session.
Last year my tutorial reviewed some tricky questions from the preceding TMA, and included a diffraction experiment for the students to carry out.
I decided that there is no need this time to review the previous TMA. I should provide something on the electrical work - emphasing physical principles.
I also found an old exam question on the use of the lens equation, which I think is instructive for sign conventions and selection of rays for ray tracing. I might extend this into a wider discussion of optics - and perhaps take along a telescope.
My own interferogram software might be used to illustrate wavefronts.
I will also take a spectroscope to allow students to look at spectra.
[6 march 2013]