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Optics
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Optics: Eighth 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 Eighth Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- Chapter I. The Propagation of Light
- Chapter II. The Behaviour of Light on Reaching a New Medium
- Chapter III. Reflection at a Plane Surface
- Chapter IV. Refraction at a Plane Surface
- Chapter V. Curvature:Refraction at a Curved Surface
- Chapter VI. The Thin Lens
- Chapter VII. Reflection at Curved Surfaces
- Chapter VIII. Cylindrical and Spherocylindrical Lenses
- Chapter IX. Lens Systems and Thick Lenses - Elementary
- Chapter X. The Principles of Optical Instruments
- Chapter XI. Photometry
- Chapter XII. The Nature of Light
- Chapter XIII. Dispersion and Colour
- Chapter XIV. Interference and Optical Films
- Chapter XV. Diffraction and Holography
- Chapter XVI. Polarisation
- Chapter XVII. The Effects of Limitation of Beams in Optical Systems
- Chapter XVIII. Aberrations
- Chapter XIX. Lens Systems-General
- Appendix
- Answers to Exercises
- Index
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