Optical Physics

by Stephen G. Lipson, Henry Lipson, Ariel Lipson

Book Overview

Optical science, the science that studies the nature of light, can be approached from several different angles. In this third edition of a successful and well-established text, the author focuses on physical and geometrical optics. The text is based largely on Fourier analysis and shows how this method can be used to describe wave propagation and diffraction and their applications to imaging, microscopy, X-ray crystallography, radio-astronomy, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052129584X
• ISBN13: 9780521295840
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"