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This fundamental text in physical optics continues to be unequaled for wide, thorough coverage and complete mathematical treatment of basic ideas.One of the first applications of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory as developed by Hertz to the problem of light, it offers a large amount of valuable material unavailable elsewhere in one volume. This treatise includes perhaps the fullest treatment of the application of thermodynamics to optics. Though one of the most powerful and significant approaches, no other text points out so fully the important practical and theoretical consequences which may be deduced simply and directly from elementary principles, by these means. Drude investigates this in such areas as temperature radiation and luminescence, Kirchoff's law of emission and absorption, the sine law in the formation of images of surface elements, the effect of change of temperature on the spectrum of a black body, and the distribution of energy in the spectrum of such a body. In addition, there are particularly valuable sections on absorbing media, crystal optics, and interference.
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- PublisherDover Publications, Incnew York
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 0486605329
- ISBN 13 9780486605326
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages546
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Dover Publications, New York, 1959
ISBN 10: 0486605329
ISBN 13: 9780486605326
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