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Optics (World Student S.) - Softcover

Hecht, Eugene; Zajac, Alfred

 
9780201304251: Optics (World Student S.)

Synopsis

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.

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