The presentation should:
     be put together using some type of graphical-oriented software.  The end product should be either a Power Point, Corel Presentations, or an html web-page presentation.

     use graphics (pictures, illustrations, cartoons, movie files, animations, or  java script interactions) instead of written text as much as possible to teach the concepts.  If you borrow a picture from someone's web site, reference it in the following way, giving the link to that site:
"Borrowed from www.optics.arizona.edu" for example.

     teach a few basic concepts about your topic.  For example, if you're talking about how a laser works, cover the very basics.  Don't try to teach everything about every type of laser!

    be no more than 5 minutes long!

    include a page of your references (at least 3 of them for full credit).

DUE DATE:    Dec. 10, 2004 by 5pm!

Email or bring to me (on a CD or floppy disk) your presentations.  (I will save them on the hard drive so that you can present them from there.  I'll also copy them to a CD so that you'll have them to keep!).  In case your files won't "run" on my computer, I'll let you know by the end of Friday, May 7 so that you'll have time to make overhead view graphs to use as your presentation during exam time.  We hope that won't be necessary :)

Each of you will give your presentation to the rest of the class, during our Final Exam time (at which point you'll be graded on your presentation)

Final Exam -- (in Optical Sciences 432--our regular classroom)
Thursday, sec. 8 on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 from 2:00pm-4:00pm
Friday, sec. 9 on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004 from 11:00am-1:00pm

"How a Gas Laser Works"
"How a Diode Laser Works"
"How Optical Fibers Work"
"The Sherlock Holmes Magnifier Lens--How Does it Work?"
"How the Microscope Works"
"How the Telescope Works"
"How a Camera Works"
"Galileo and the Telescope"
"Early Uses of Glass"
"Glass-making-- Old vs. New Technologies"
"Laser Materials Processing"
"Uses of Optics in Medicine"
"The Colors in Television"
"The Colors in Magazines"
"The Making of the 200" Mirror for the Telescope on Mt. Palomar"
"Optical Technology of the Internet"
"Sunsets, Sundogs, and Blue Skies--Optics in our Atmosphere"
"A Survey of the World's Largest Telescopes"
"The Optics of a Rainbow"
"What went Wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope"
"The Colors in Stained Glass"
"The National Ignition Facility--The World's Largest Laser!"

Email them to me by 5pm, Nov. 18/19, 2004