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Optics
Sander Konijnenberg, Aurèle J.L. Adam, & H. Paul Urbach · Delft University of Technology
In the contents: 01: Basic Electromagnetic and Wave Optics · 1.02: Electromagnetic Theory of Optics and Quantum Optics · 1.11: Fiber Optics
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University Physics III: Optics & Modern Physics
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 02: Geometric Optics and Image Formation · 2.0A: 2.A: Geometric Optics and Image Formation (Answers) · 2.0E: 2.E: Geometric Optics and Image Formation (Exercises)
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Modern Optics Project Laboratory
David Dunmeyer · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In the contents: 01: Safety Polarization States of Optical Waves Dielectric Reflection and Geometric Optics
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Intro to Optics and Photonics
Ana Doblas · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
In the contents: 01: Module 1 - Geometrical Optics · 1.01: Class 1 - Postulates and Rules in Ray Optics · 1.05: Class 5 - Matrix Optics and 4f Imaging Systems
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Ultrafast Optics
Franz X. Kaertner · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covered issues regarding ultrafast optics including: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers and other
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Physical Optics
Jeremy Tatum · University of Victoria
Physical optics, or wave optics, is the branch of optics that studies interference, diffraction, polarization, and other phenomena for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid.
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Geometric Optics
Jeremy Tatum · University of Victoria
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.
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Physics 9HC: Introduction to Waves, Physical Optics, and Quantum Theory
Tom Weideman · University of California, Davis
In the contents: 2: Physical Optics
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UCD: Physics 9B Waves, Sound, Optics, Thermodynamics, and Fluids
Tom Weideman · University of California, Davis
In the contents: 03: Physical Optics · 04: Geometrical Optics
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BSc Optics
Sander Konijnenberg; Aurèle Adam; Paul Urbach · TU Delft Open · 2024
This book treats optics at the level of students in the later stage of their bachelor or the beginning of their master. It is assumed that the student is familiar with Maxwell’s equations. Although the book takes account of the fact that optics is part of electromagnetism, special emphasis is put on the usefulness of approximate models of optics, their hierarchy and limits of validity. Approximate models such as geometrical optics and paraxial geometrical optics are treated extensively and applied to image formation by the human eye, the microscope and the telescope. Polarisation states and how to manipulate them are studied using Jones vectors and Jones matrices. In the context of interference, the coherence of light is explained thoroughly. To understand fundamental limits of resolution which cannot be explained by geometrical optics, diffraction theory is applied to imaging. The angular spectrum method and evanescent waves are used to understand the inherent loss of information about subwavelength features during the propagation of light. The book ends with a study of the working principle of the laser.
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Exploring Weather and Climate
Glen Sampson · Glen Sampson · 2025
This textbook is oriented toward a first or second year college science class, or an advanced high school course. Sixteen chapters are present which fits a 16-week college semester. These chapters may be divided into three sections: 1. Atmospheric processes including structure, composition, energy balance, pressure forces, moisture, stability, and precipitation processes in Chapters 1 through 5. 2. Weather systems including global circulation, tropical and extratropical cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, atmospheric optics, and weather forecasting in Chapters 6 through 10. 3. Climate topics including classification, human influences on the atmosphere, natural climate variability, paleoclimate, climate change due to anthropogenic influences, climate projections, and a changing climate’s affect on extreme weather in Chapters 11 through 16.
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University Physics Volume 3
Stephen D. Druger; Alice Kolakowska; Samuel J. Ling; David Anderson · OpenStax, Rice University
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity, and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
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University Physics Volume 2
Gerald Friedman; Stephen D. Druger; Alice Kolakowska; Samuel J. Ling · OpenStax, Rice University
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
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University Physics Volume 1
Stephen D. Druger; William Moebs; Samuel J. Ling; Jeff Sanny · OpenStax, Rice University
University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.
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Geometrische Optica
Joseph Braat; Aurèle Adam · TU Delft Open · 2025
The book provides the scientific basis of geometrical optics, ray tracing, and aberration theory. It applies this knowledge to optical systems and their imaging performance and establishes the link between ray optics and wave optics.
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PHYS 2040: General Physics
Neeharika Thakur · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 04: Geometric Optics · 06: Wave Optics · 6.4: Applications of Wave Optics
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Intrumental Analysis
David Harvey · DePauw University
In the contents: 7.06: Fiber Optics
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Concepts of Physical Science
Jamie MacArthur · Madera Community College
In the contents: 09: Electromagnetic Radiation and Optics
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Calculus-Based Physics
Jeffrey W. Schnick · Saint Anselm College
In the contents: Volume B: Electricity Magnetism and Optics · B26: Geometric Optics Reflection
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Conceptual Physics
Benjamin Crowell · Fullerton College
In the contents: 13: Optics · 13.05: Wave Optics · 13.E: Optics (Exercises)