Introduction to Visual Optics, 1st Edition
Paperback
$96.99
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Covers foundational visual optics knowledge, from refraction to reflection, vergence, and more in a fun, easy-to-read format.
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Features a highly visual format, with full-colour illustrations, tables, and boxes throughout to aid in understanding and memory recall.
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Discusses underlying principles of several key ophthalmic imaging techniques.
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Includes experiments you can try at home (create your own cornea, build a camera obscura, create a blue sky in your kitchen, create an interference film, create a prism) with companion demonstration videos to facilitate and apply key learning objectives.
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Contains approximately 200 practice questions and equations throughout that test your knowledge of core concepts.
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An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
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1 Basics of Light and Colour
2 Vergence and Refraction
3 Thin Lenses
4 Thick Lenses
5 Reduced Eye and Spherical and Cylindrical Lenses
6 Reflection
7 Ray Tracing
8 Dispersion and Chromatic Aberration
9 Prisms
10 Reflection
10 Superposition, Diffraction, and Interference
11 Focimetry
12 Photometry
13 Optical Instruments and Low Vision Aids
14 Polarisation
15 Imaging the Eye and Measuring Refractive Error
16 Wavefront Aberrations and Adaptive Optics
17 Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
18 Create Your Own Camera Obscura
19 Create a Blue Sky in your Kitchen
20 Create a Prism
21 Measure the Speed of Light
22 Create a "Cornea"
23 Kitchen Thin Film Interference
24 Answers to Practice Questions
25 Answers to Test Your Knowledge Questions
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