Optics
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Optics
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Contents
- Light
- Nature of light
- Waves
- Evidence for wave properties of light
- Evidence for light as a stream of particles
- Features of a wave
- Nature of light
- Propagation of light
- Fibre optics
- Images
- Images
- Real images
- Virtual images
- Curved mirrors
- The mirror equation
- Images
- Lenses
- Introduction
- Refraction at a spherical interface
- A lens
- Locating the image
- The lensmaker’s equation
- Converging and diverging lenses
- Optical instruments using lenses
- Single-lens systems
- A magnifying glass
- Compound optical systems
- The refracting telescope
- Single-lens systems
- Interference and diffraction
- Wave phenomena
- Huygens’ Principle
- Introduction
- Interference
- Diffraction
- Summary of formulas in this chapter
- Small angle approximation
- Small angle approximation
- Derivations for the Module 7 exam
- Derivations for the Module 7 exam
X-ray optics
External Resources
- Diffractive optics papers and patents.
- Also available [1] and [2] news and events.
- Gradient-index optics reviews, theory and ideas