Synopses & Reviews
Accurate, authoritative and comprehensive, Optics, Fifth Edition has been revised to provide readers with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this book provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also including the necessary classical background. The writing style is lively and accessible.
Synopsis
A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation to provide you with the necessary, classical background through a lively and clear narrative.
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives for the reader: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition s pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
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Synopsis
KEY BENEFIT Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background through a lively and clear narrative.
Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition's pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
Key Topics: A Brief History; Wave Motion; Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light;The Propagation of Light; Geometrical Optics; More on Geometrical Optics; The Superposition of Waves; Polarization; Interference; Diffraction; Fourier Optics; Basics of Coherence Theory; Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics
MARKET For anyone interested in Optics.