Optics Learning by Computing, with Examples Using Mathcad® /

• Main Author: Möller, K. D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Series: Undergraduate Texts in Contemporary Physics
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Engineering.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Engineering, general.

This book was written over several years for a one-semester course in optics ® 1 for juniors and seniors in science and engineering; it uses Mathcad scripts to provide a simulated laboratory where students can learn by exploration and discovery instead of passive absorption. The text covers all the...

Table of Contents:

• Geometrical Optics
• Interference
• Diffraction
• Coherence
• Maxwell’s Theory
• Maxwell II. Modes and Mode Propagation
• Blackbody Radiation, Atomic Emission, and Lasers
• Optical Constants
• Fourier Transformation and FT-Spectroscopy
• Imaging Using Wave Theory
• Aberration.