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Geometric Optics
This “book” is not intended to be a vast, definitive treatment of everything that is known about geometric optics. It covers, rather, the geometric optics of first-year students, whom it will either help or confuse yet further, though I hope the former. The part of geometric optics that often causes the most difficulty, particularly in getting the right answer for homework or examination problems, is the vexing matter of sign conventions in lens and mirror calculations.
- Author
- Jeremy Tatum
- Publisher
- University of Victoria
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 41 sections
- 01: Reflection and Refraction
- 1.01: Introduction
- 1.02: Reflection at a Plane Surface
- 1.03: Refraction at a Plane Surface
- 1.04: Real and Apparent Depth
- 1.05: Reflection and Refraction
- 1.06: Refraction by a Prism
- 1.07: The Rainbow
- 1.08: Differential Form of Snell's Law
- 02: Lens and Mirror Calculations
- 2.01: Introduction to Lens and Mirror Calculations
- 2.02: Limitations
- 2.03: Real and Virtual
- 2.04: Convergence
- 2.05: Power
- 2.06: Magnification
- 2.07: Examples
- 2.08: Derivation of the Powers
- 2.8A: Power of a Lens
- 2.8B: Power of a Refracting Interface
- 2.8C: Power of a Mirror
- 2.09: Derivation of Magnification
- 2.10: Designing an Achromatic Doublet
- 2.11: Thick Lenses
- 2.12: Principal Planes
- 2.13: The Lazy Way
- 2.14: Exercise
- 03: Optical Instruments
- 3.01: The Driving Mirror
- 3.02: The Magnifying Glass
- 3.03: Spectacle Lenses
- 3.04: The Camera
- 3.05: The Telescope
- 3.06: The Microscope
- 04: Optical Aberrations
- 4.01: Introduction to Optical Aberrations
- 4.02: Spherical Aberration
- 4.03: Astigmatism
- 4.04: Coma
- 4.05: Curvature of Field
- 4.06: Distortion