Category: Optics

By M. Rousseau, J.P. Mathieu and D. ter Haar (Auth.)

By Galen Duree

The straightforward strategy to make clear Optics

In common phrases, optics is the technology of sunshine. extra particularly, optics is a department of physics that describes the habit and houses of light?including obvious, infrared, and ultraviolet?and the interplay of sunshine with matter.

"Optics For Dummies" delivers an approachable advent to optical technology, equipment, and functions. You'll get plain-English factors of the character of sunshine and optical results; mirrored image, refraction, and diffraction; colour dispersion; optical units, commercial, clinical, and army functions; in addition to laser mild basics. Tracks a standard undergraduate optics direction designated factors of innovations and summaries of equations priceless suggestions for examine from university professors

If you're taking an optics direction in your significant in physics or engineering, enable "Optics For Dummies" make clear the topic and assist you be successful!

By Tatum,J.B

This can be a process notes on optics through Dr J.B. Tatum, a retired instructor from the dep. of Physics and Astronomy, collage of Victoria, Canada. The chapters are available PDF layout. subject matters mentioned comprise: mirrored image and refraction; lens and replicate calculations; and optical instruments.

By Robert Schalck

If you'd like the simplest functionality out of your optics, they should be correctly maintained. This ebook describes the cleansing, dealing with, and garage equipment utilized by expert technicians to maintain optics in most sensible situation. it really is written for a various viewers, from first-time optical cleaners to meeting technicians and professional engineers trying to extend their repertoire. within the lab or within the box, you will discover the suitable strategy to safeguard your apparatus from damage. Reference lists of instruments, solvents, and providers are supplied that will help you locate suggestions quick.

By Hans-Joachim Petsche, Lloyd Kannenberg, Gottfried Keßler, Jolanta Liskowacka

Hermann Günther Graßmann was once one of many 19^th century’s such a lot notable scientists, yet many elements of his lifestyles have remained at midnight. This e-book assembles crucial, first-hand details at the Graßmann relatives. It sheds mild at the family’s fight for medical wisdom, growth and schooling. It places a face at the protagonists of an exhilarating improvement within the historical past of technological know-how. And it highlights the ordinary set of impacts which led Hermann Graßmann to terrific insights in arithmetic, philology and physics.

This e-book of assets is intended to counterpoint the biography of Graßmann and the court cases of the 2009 Graßmann Bicentennial convention (Birkhäuser 2010). "Roots and strains" will curiosity all students engaged on Hermann Graßmann and comparable issues. It deals newly stumbled on images of relations, old texts documenting lifestyles during this unparalleled kin and an English translation of those formerly unpublished papers.

Text in German and English.

By Eli Kapon

By Hongwen Ren

Presents readers with the fundamental technological know-how, know-how, and functions for all sorts of adaptive lens

An adaptive lens is a lens whose form has been replaced to another focal size via an exterior stimulus reminiscent of strain, electrical box, magnetic box, or temperature. Introduction to Adaptive Lenses is the 1st publication ever to handle the entire basic operation ideas, gadget features, and strength functions of varied sorts of adaptive lenses.

This accomplished publication covers easy fabric houses, gadget buildings and function, picture processing and zooming, optical communications, and biomedical imaging. Readers will locate homework difficulties and recommendations incorporated on the finish of every chapter?and in accordance with the defined gadget constructions, they are going to have the data to manufacture adaptive lenses for functional functions or enhance new adaptive units or techniques for complicated investigation.

Introduction to Adaptive Lenses comprises chapters on:

• Optical lenses

• Elastomeric membrane lenses

• Electro-wetting lenses

• Dielectrophoretic lenses

• Mechanical-wetting lenses

• Liquid crystal lenses

This is a crucial reference for optical engineers, study scientists, graduate scholars, and undergraduate seniors.

Content:
Chapter 1 Optical Lens (pages 1–22):
Chapter 2 Elastomeric Membrane Lens (pages 23–79):
Chapter three Electrowetting Lens (pages 80–106):
Chapter four Dielectrophoretic Lens (pages 107–158):
Chapter five different Adaptive Liquid Lenses (pages 159–188):
Chapter 6 Liquid Crystal Lens (pages 189–269):

By W. Lauterborn, T. Kurz

By Armin Wachter

Die überarbeitete und aktualisierte zweite Auflage des Repetitorium Theoretische Physik enthält den kanonischen Lehrstoff der Theoretischen Physik, der in den ersten 6 Semestern an deutschen Universitäten gelehrt wird. Zwei junge theoretische Physiker bieten den Prüfungsstoff für Vordiplom, Zwischenprüfung, Diplom und Staatsexamen in prägnanter und argumentativ stringenter Darstellung. Von der klassischen Mechanik über Elektrodynamik, Quantenmechanik und Statistische Physik/Thermodynamik werden alle Themen in einer axiomatisch-deduktiven Darstellung behandelt und durch Übungen mit Lösungen sowie Zusammenfassungen gefestigt. Das Buch eignet sich sowohl als begleitendes Lehrbuch als auch zum Wiederholen und Strukturieren von bereits vertrautem Lehrstoff und überbrückt somit die Kluft zwischen umfangreichen Lehrbüchern und reinen Formelsammlungen. Dieses Repetitorium der Theoretischen Physik wird insbesondere all jene begeistern, die sich in der Prüfungsvorbereitung befinden und den Lehrstoff noch einmal im Zusammenhang durchgehen wollen.