Concise Optics: Concepts, Examples, and Problems [Paperback]

This introductory text is a reader friendly treatment of geometrical and physical optics emphasizing problems and solved examples with detailed analysis and helpful commentary. The authors are seasoned educators with decades of experience teaching optics. Their approach is to gradually present mathematics explaining the physical concepts. It covers ray tracing to the wave nature of light, and introduces Maxwells equations in an organic fashion. The text then moves on to explains how to analyze simple optical systems such as spectacles for improving vision, microscopes, and telescopes, while also being exposed to contemporary research topics.

Ajawad I. Haija is a professor of physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

M. Z. Numan is professor and chair of the department of physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

W. Larry Freeman is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Series Preface: Textbook Series in Physical Sciences

Preface

Acknowledgments

Authors

Section I  Introduction

Chapter 1. Light: Its Nature and History of Study

Section II  Geometrical Optics of Light

Chapter 2. Reflection and Refraction

Chapter 3. Paraxial Rays and Lenses

Chapter 4. Matrix Optics for Paraxial Rays

Section III  Wave Optics

Chapter 5. Light Waves, Properties, and Propagation

Chapter 6. Light Waves, Coherence, Superposition, and Interference