Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the text that is easy to comprehend, visually appealing, and engaging from cover to cover. Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach covers the basic information you need in this complex area in a significantly more approachable manner than other resources on the market. You’ll find clear, easy-to-read explanations that work hand-in-hand with colourful charts, graphs, illustrations, and diagrams created by the author, Dr. Samantha Strong. This unique text is perfect for optometry students, optometrists, ophthalmology residents, student dispensing opticians, and others in the eye care field.
Covers foundational visual optics knowledge, from refraction to reflection, vergence, and more in a fun, easy-to-read format.
Features a highly visual format, with full-colour illustrations, tables, and boxes throughout to aid in understanding and memory recall.
Discusses underlying principles of several key ophthalmic imaging techniques.
Includes experiments you can try at home (create your own cornea, build a camera obscura, create a blue sky in your kitchen, create an interference film, create a prism) with companion demonstration videos to facilitate and apply key learning objectives.
Contains approximately 200 practice questions and equations throughout that test your knowledge of core concepts.
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Inside front cover - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Acknowledgements - p. iii 8. Preface - p. iii 9. Contents - p. iii 10. Video table of contents - p. iii 11. List of Illustrations - p. iii 12. List of Tables - p. iii 13. Section 1: Geometric and Basic Optics - p. iii 14. Chapter 1: Basics of light and colour - p. iii 15. Chapter 2: Vergence and refraction - p. 10 16. Chapter 3: Thin lenses - p. 26 17. Chapter 4: Thick lenses - p. 38 18. Chapter 5: The reduced eye and spherical and cylindrical lenses - p. 46 19. Chapter 6: Reflection - p. 56 20. Chapter 7: Ray tracing - p. 64 21. Chapter 8: Dispersion and chromatic aberration - p. 74 22. Chapter 9: Prisms - p. 82 23. Section 2: Physical Optics - p. 94 24. Chapter 10: Superposition, interference and diffraction - p. 94 25. Section 3: Clinical Applications - p. 106 26. Chapter 11: Focimetry - p. 106 27. Chapter 12: Photometry - p. 112 28. Chapter 13: Optical instruments and low vision aids - p. 122 29. Chapter 14: Polarisation - p. 129 30. Chapter 15: Imaging the eye and measuring refractive error - p. 137 31. Chapter 16: Wavefront aberrations and adaptive optics - p. 148 32. Chapter 17: Optical coherence tomography - p. 154 33. Section 4: Experiments to Do at Home - p. 160 34. Chapter 18: Create your own camera obscura - p. 160 35. Chapter 19: Create a blue sky at home - p. 166 36. Chapter 20: Create a prism - p. 170 37. Chapter 21: Measure the speed of light - p. 174 38. Chapter 22: Create a ‘cornea’ - p. 178 39. Chapter 23: Kitchen thin film interference - p. 182 40. Section 5: Question Answers - p. 186 41. Chapter 24: Answers to practice questions - p. 186 42. Chapter 25: Answers to test your knowledge questions - p. 200 43. Index - p. 208
Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the text that is easy to comprehend, visually appealing, and engaging from cover to cover. Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach covers the basic information you need in this complex area in a significantly more approachable manner than other resources on the market. You’ll find clear, easy-to-read explanations that work hand-in-hand with colourful charts, graphs, illustrations, and diagrams created by the author, Dr. Samantha Strong. This unique text is perfect for optometry students, optometrists, ophthalmology residents, student dispensing opticians, and others in the eye care field.
Covers foundational visual optics knowledge, from refraction to reflection, vergence, and more in a fun, easy-to-read format.
Features a highly visual format, with full-colour illustrations, tables, and boxes throughout to aid in understanding and memory recall.
Discusses underlying principles of several key ophthalmic imaging techniques.
Includes experiments you can try at home (create your own cornea, build a camera obscura, create a blue sky in your kitchen, create an interference film, create a prism) with companion demonstration videos to facilitate and apply key learning objectives.
Contains approximately 200 practice questions and equations throughout that test your knowledge of core concepts.
An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
1. Cover image - p. Cover 2. Title page - p. ii 3. Table of Contents - p. iii 4. Inside front cover - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Dedication - p. iii 7. Acknowledgements - p. iii 8. Preface - p. iii 9. Contents - p. iii 10. Video table of contents - p. iii 11. List of Illustrations - p. iii 12. List of Tables - p. iii 13. Section 1: Geometric and Basic Optics - p. iii 14. Chapter 1: Basics of light and colour - p. iii 15. Chapter 2: Vergence and refraction - p. 10 16. Chapter 3: Thin lenses - p. 26 17. Chapter 4: Thick lenses - p. 38 18. Chapter 5: The reduced eye and spherical and cylindrical lenses - p. 46 19. Chapter 6: Reflection - p. 56 20. Chapter 7: Ray tracing - p. 64 21. Chapter 8: Dispersion and chromatic aberration - p. 74 22. Chapter 9: Prisms - p. 82 23. Section 2: Physical Optics - p. 94 24. Chapter 10: Superposition, interference and diffraction - p. 94 25. Section 3: Clinical Applications - p. 106 26. Chapter 11: Focimetry - p. 106 27. Chapter 12: Photometry - p. 112 28. Chapter 13: Optical instruments and low vision aids - p. 122 29. Chapter 14: Polarisation - p. 129 30. Chapter 15: Imaging the eye and measuring refractive error - p. 137 31. Chapter 16: Wavefront aberrations and adaptive optics - p. 148 32. Chapter 17: Optical coherence tomography - p. 154 33. Section 4: Experiments to Do at Home - p. 160 34. Chapter 18: Create your own camera obscura - p. 160 35. Chapter 19: Create a blue sky at home - p. 166 36. Chapter 20: Create a prism - p. 170 37. Chapter 21: Measure the speed of light - p. 174 38. Chapter 22: Create a ‘cornea’ - p. 178 39. Chapter 23: Kitchen thin film interference - p. 182 40. Section 5: Question Answers - p. 186 41. Chapter 24: Answers to practice questions - p. 186 42. Chapter 25: Answers to test your knowledge questions - p. 200 43. Index - p. 208
