Geometric, Physical, and Visual Optics - Hardcover

Keating PhD, Michael P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750672625 ISBN 13: 9780750672627

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001

Synopsis

* Fundamental text for an optometric curriculum, a student studying for the optometry boards, or a person interested in optics and vision * Uses the vergence-dioptric power-wavefront approach from the beginning * Emphasizes conceptual understanding and development of intuition

About this title

From the Publisher:

Completely revised and updated, you will benefit from new and rewritten sections on: axial magnification * Jackson Cross Cylinder tests * retinoscopy reflex motions * field of view * the optics of indirect ophthalmoscopy * optical aberrations * diffractive lenses * the Doppler shift * lasers and the similarities and differences of Gaussian laser beams versus the propagation of light from a point source * plus, a new appendix on angles and basic trigonometry. Although not a matrix optics text, matrices are used extensively in the chapters on spherical systems and off-axis aspects of astigmatism. In particular, the matrix treatment of astigmatism serves as a foundation for the recently developed, much improved statistical techniques that deal with refractive corrections and astigmatism in all its aspects.

About the Author:

Michael P. Keating, PhD, is Professor, Michigan College of Optometry, Ferris State University, Big Rapids

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0750672625
• ISBN 13: 9780750672627
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 632