The Physics of Invisibility A Story of Light and Deception /

• Main Author: Beech, Martin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Popular works.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Popular Science, general.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." These words most certainly ring true with respect to invisibility cloaking devices. At work is the magic of science, of course. The technology to make an object simply disappear fr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Of All Things Visible and Invisible
• Chapter 2: A Very Brief History of Light
• Chapter 3: Mirror Tricks, the Art of Cloaking and Seeing the Impossible
• Chapter 4: Maxwell's Marvelous Waves
• Chapter 5: The Metamaterial Revolution
• Afterword
• Appendices
• Index.