Optics

Benjamin Crowell
115 pages (Fall 2006); 10.8MB download
Benjamin Crowell; ISBN: 0-9704670-5-2

DESCRIPTION

Optics: Book 5 in the Light and Matter Series of Physics Textbooks

Contents

1.0 The Ray Model of Light
1.1 The Nature of Light
1.2 Interaction of Light with Matter
1.3 The Ray Model of Light
1.4 Geometry of Specular Reflection
1.5 The Principle of Least Time for Reflection
Summary
Homework Problems

2.0 Images by Reflection, Part I
2.1 A Virtual Image
2.2 Curved Mirrors
2.3 A Real Image
2.4 Images of Images
Summary
Homework Problems

3.0 Images by Reflection, Part II
3.1 A Real Image Formed by an In-Bending Mirror
3.2 Other Cases With Curved Mirrors
3.3 Aberrations
Summary
Homework Problems

4.0 Refraction and Images
4.1 Refraction
4.2 Lenses
4.3 The Lensmaker's Equation
4.4 Refraction and the Principle of Least Time
Summary
Homework Problems

5.0 Wave Optics
5.1 Diffraction
5.2 Scaling of Diffraction
5.3 The Correspondence Principle
5.4 Huygens' Principle
5.5 Double-Slit Diffraction
5.6 Repetition
5.7 Single-Slit Diffraction
Summary
Homework Problems
Index

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