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Optics

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1 Optics

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2 Contents

•   Light

•  Nature of light

•   Waves

•   Evidence for wave properties of light

•   Evidence for light as a stream of particles

•  Features of a wave

•   Propagation of light

•   Fermat’s Principle

•   Refraction

•  Total internal reflection

•  Fibre optics

•   Images

•   Images

•   Real images

•  Virtual images

•  Curved mirrors

•  The mirror equation

•   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

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  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

Authors

3 External Resources

•   Diffractive optics papers and patents.

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  Also available and news and events.•   Gradient-index optics reviews, theory and ideas

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