Optics 4th Edition

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 650

Release Date: 01-12-2008

Part Number: FLSPD9788131718070

Details: Description Accurate, authoritative, and comprehensive, Optics , Fourth Edition has been revised to provide studentswith the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader forover a decade, this text provides a balance of theory andinstrumentation, while also including the necessary classicalbackground. The writing style is lively and accessible. NEW AND UPDATED! New illustrations and photos, as well as revised art, are included throughout enhancing the already outstanding visual pedagogy of this textbook. UPDATED ! Chapter 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light has been fully revised and updated to reflect advances in the field. The text employs a careful balance of theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background. Coherence is introduced early on in the text and leads immediately into a discussion of Young's Experiments. To underscore the quantum mechanical nature of interference, many optical interference photos are accompanied by equivalent material particle fringe patterns. A Brief History. Wave Motion. The Propagation of Light. Geometrical Optics. More on Geometrical Optics. The Superposition of Waves. Polarization. Interference. Diffraction. Fourier Optics. Basics of Coherence Theory. Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics.