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Optics
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Optics: Ninth Edition Optics: Ninth Edition covers the work necessary for the specialization in such subjects as ophthalmic optics, optical instruments and lens design. The text includes topics such as the propagation and behavior of light; reflection and refraction – their laws and how different media affect them; lenses – thick and thin, cylindrical and subcylindrical; photometry; dispersion and color; interference; and polarization. Also included are topics such as diffraction and holography; the limitation of beams in optical systems and its effects; and lens systems. The book is recommended for engineering students who are in need of an introduction to the subject and the mathematics involved in it.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Optics
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to ninth edition
- Preface to first edition
- Chapter 1. The propagation of light
- Chapter 2. The behaviour of light on reaching a new medium
- 3 Reflection at a plane surface
- Chapter 4. Refraction and internal reflection at a plane surface—prisms and optical fibres
- Chapter 5. Curvature: refraction at a curved surface
- Chapter 6. The thin lens
- Chapter 7. Reflection at curved surfaces
- Chapter 8. Cylindrical and spherocylindrical lenses
- Chapter 9. Lens systems and thick lenses — elementary
- Chapter 10. The principles of optical instruments
- Chapter 11. Photometry
- Chapter 12. The nature of light
- Chapter 13. Dispersion and colour — optical materials
- Chapter 14. Interference and optical films
- Chapter 15. Diffraction and holography
- Chapter 16. Polarization
- Chapter 17. The effects of limitation of beams in optical systems
- Chapter 18. Aberrations and image quality
- Chapter 19. Lens systems — general
- Chapter 20. The eye as an optical instrument
- Appendices
- Answers to exercises
- Index