This textbook provides a comprehensive and thorough coverage of optics. It employs a balance of theory and instrumentation, providing the student with a classical background with historical anecdotes and citations. It incorporates current advances from lenses and lasers to telescopes and fibres. Additional problems are provided, designed to develop analytical skills. A more complete low-level discussion of superposition principle is included, as well as an introductory section on phasors and the addition of waves.
- ISBN10 0201116111
- ISBN13 9780201116113
- Publish Date March 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Addison Wesley
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 640
- Language English