Teaching materials

All teaching materials produced within the chair are made freely available below. These materials are updated annually in response to student feedback and various requirements. Anyone using these materials for their own teaching or research may simply cite the chair using the following sentence: ‘Materials extracted from INSA-TESCAN-CNRS P.W.Hawkes' chair of Charged Particle Optics : PWH Chair of CPO’ .

For INSA students, all the slides can be downloaded from the chair’s moodle account : https://moodle.insa-toulouse.fr/course/view.php?id=2336.

For external, we also choose to provide the pdf in high resolution. These files can be downloaded using the INSA openmoodle platform links below. In order to have access to the file, you will first have to create an openmoodle account using your email address.

Year 2025-2026

• Lagrangian Mechanics (3A) :

1. For INSA students, please use the following moodle link : https://moodle.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/resource/view.php?id=110334
2. For external to INSA, please use the following openmoodle link : https://open.insa-toulouse.fr/pluginfile.php/203511/mod_folder/content/0/Synthe%CC%80se%20de%20cours%20Mecanique%20Lagrangienne%20Hamiltonienne_3A_Houdellier%202025-2026.pdf?forcedownload=1  

• Geometrical optics (4A) :

1. For INSA students, please use the following moodle link : https://moodle.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/resource/view.php?id=110349 
2. For external to INSA, please use the following openmoodle link : https://open.insa-toulouse.fr/pluginfile.php/203512/mod_folder/content/0/Cours%20optique%20ge%CC%81ome%CC%81trique_4A_Houdellier%202025-2026.pdf?forcedownload=1 

• Charged particle optics (5A)

1. For INSA students, please use the following moodle link :https://moodle.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/resource/view.php?id=110350 
2. For external to INSA, please use the following openmoodle link : https://open.insa-toulouse.fr/pluginfile.php/203513/mod_folder/content/0/Cours%20CPO%20presentation_5A_Houdellier%202025-2026.pdf?forcedownload=1 

• History of optics (Optics under epistemological perspective)

1. For INSA students, please use the following moodle link:  https://moodle.insa-toulouse.fr/mod/resource/view.php?id=110351 
2. For external to INSA, please use the following openmoodle link: https://open.insa-toulouse.fr/pluginfile.php/203514/mod_folder/content/0/Histoire%20de%20loptique%20ED%202026_Houdellier.pdf?forcedownload=1