Optics and optical instruments : an introduction with special reference to practical applications

✍ Scribed by B K Johnson

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 119
• Edition: 3d ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

''This book illustrates basic practical applications of optical principles. Working models of telescopes, microscopes, photographic lenses, and optical projection systems are diagrammed and explained in full, as are the basic experiments for determining accuracy, power, angular field of view, amount of aberration, and all other necessary facts about the instrument. Throughout the book, only elementary mathematics is used, for the benefit of the student and the beginner in the field of optics.''--Back cover. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Reflection and refraction --
Focal length measurements --
The eye --
The telescope --
The microscope --
Photographic lenses --
Optical projection systems --
Optical glass: its working and testing.
Abstract: ''This book illustrates basic practical applications of optical principles. Working models of telescopes, microscopes, photographic lenses, and optical projection systems are diagrammed and explained in full, as are the basic experiments for determining accuracy, power, angular field of view, amount of aberration, and all other necessary facts about the instrument. Throughout the book, only elementary mathematics is used, for the benefit of the student and the beginner in the field of optics.''--Back cover