Basic Optics and Optical Instruments: Revised Edition

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ISBN 10: 0486222918 / ISBN 13: 9780486222912

Published by Dover Publications, 1969

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Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nasse; Leichte Rillen / Abschurfungen / Risse / Knicke; Farbtonanderung. This training manual for Navy personnel (Opticalman 3 & 2) offers comprehensive coverage of optics theory and applications. Newly revised, it presents concepts with clarity, balancing theory and practical application. The manual begins with an introduction to the Opticalman rating and discusses light characteristics, focusing on wavelengths, reflection, and refraction. It includes detailed chapters on image formation by mirrors, lenses, and prisms, explaining thin and thick lenses, the lens formula, and image location in optical instruments. Additionally, it covers the mechanical construction, maintenance procedures, and machining operations of basic optical instruments, along with chapters on maintenance, basic instrument repair, machine shop practices, and the upkeep of optical and navigation equipment, night vision sights, gunsights, and submarine periscopes. A four-part appendix features a glossary, common optical repair formulae, metric system prefixes and symbols, and units of measurement with equivalents and conversions.Illustrated with 370 charts, diagrams, photographs, and tool drawings--including cross-sections revealing inner workings--this manual is organized and clear. While intended for U.S. Naval training schools, it serves as a valuable basic text in optics for standard technical schools and is beneficial for laypersons seeking to understand optics fundamentals.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Basic Optics and Optical Instruments: Revised Edition
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486222918
• ISBN 13: 9780486222912
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Fair
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Synopsis

Designed as a training manual for Navy personnel (Opticalman 3 & 2), this book provides thorough coverage of the basic theory of optics and its applications. Newly revised and updated, it presents the subject matter with extraordinary clarity, stressing theory and application equally. It will serve admirably to supplement a course in which only one of these factors is emphasized.
The book begins with an introduction to the Opticalman rating. It then goes on to discuss the characteristics of light, with special emphasis on wavelengths, reflection, and refraction. Two chapters contain a detailed discussion of the formation of images by mirrors, lenses, and prisms; these explain how images are formed by thin and thick lenses, how to use the lens formula, and how to determine the location of an image formed by an optical instrument. The mechanical construction, maintenance procedures, and machining operations of basic optical instruments are explained in detail, supplemented by chapters on maintenance procedures, basic instrument repair, machine shop practices, optical and navigation equipment maintenance, night vision sights and gunsights and submarine periscopes. A helpful four-part appendix includes a glossary, common formulae used in optical repair and machine operations, prefixes and symbols used in the metric system, and English and metric system units of measurement, with common equivalents and conversions.
Profusely illustrated with 370 charts, diagrams, photographs, and drawings of tools and parts of instruments — including cross-sections that reveal inner workings — this manual is especially clear and well-organized. Although designed for use in U.S. Naval training schools, it can be used to great advantage as a basic text in optics in standard technical schools, and it will be immensely valuable even to the layman who desires a knowledge of the fundamentals of optics.