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Optics.

By: Hecht, Eugene.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Harlow : Addison-Wesley, c.1998Edition: 3rd ed.Description: vi,694p. : ill. ; 24cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0201304252(pbk.) :; 9780201304251.Subject(s): Optics | Science | Optical physicsDDC classification: 535 HEC Summary: This text provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs an excellent balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This textbook provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs a balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations. It incorporates current advances from lenses and lasers to telescopes and fibres. Additional problems are provided, designed to develop analytical skills. A more complete low-level discussion of superposition principle is included, as well as an introductory section on phasors and the addition of waves.

includes bibliography (p.681-684) and index.

This text provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs an excellent balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 A Brief History
  • 2 Wave Motion
  • 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light
  • 4 The Propagation of Light
  • 5 Geometrical Optics
  • 6 More on Geometrical Optics
  • 7 The Superposition of Waves
  • 8 Polarization
  • 9 Interference
  • 10 Diffraction
  • 11 Fourier Optics
  • 12 Basics of Coherence Theory
  • 13 Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics