Optics (World Student)

by EugeneHecht (Author), Alfred Zajac (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.74

  This textbook provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs a balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations. It incorporates current advances from lenses and lasers to telescopes and fibres. Additional problems are provided, designed to develop analytical skills. A more complete low-level discussion of superposition principle is included, as well as an introductory section on phasors and the addition of waves.