Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach

by Samantha Strong PhD

Overview

Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the text that is easy to comprehend, visually appealing, and engaging from cover to cover. Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach covers the basic information you need in this complex area in a significantly more approachable manner than other resources on the market. You’ll find clear, easy-to-read explanations that work hand-in-hand with colourful charts, graphs, illustrations, and diagrams created by the author, Dr. Samantha Strong. This unique text is perfect for optometry students, optometrists, ophthalmology residents, student dispensing opticians, and others in the eye care field.

• Covers foundational visual optics knowledge, from refraction to reflection, vergence, and more in a fun, easy-to-read format.   

• Features a highly visual format, with full-colour illustrations, tables, and boxes throughout to aid in understanding and memory recall.  

• Discusses underlying principles of several key ophthalmic imaging techniques. 

• Includes experiments you can try at home (create your own cornea, build a camera obscura, create a blue sky in your kitchen, create an interference film, create a prism) with companion demonstration videos to facilitate and apply key learning objectives.  

• Contains approximately 200 practice questions and equations throughout that test your knowledge of core concepts.      

• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323875349
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	02/07/2023
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.00(d)

Table of Contents

Section 1: Geometric and Basic Optics
Chapter 1: Basics of Light and Colour
Chapter 2: Vergence and Refraction
Chapter 3: Thin Lenses
Chapter 4: Ray Tracing
Chapter 5: Equivalent Lenses
Chapter 6: Thick Lenses
Chapter 7: Dispersion and Chromatic Aberration
Chapter 8: Prisms
Chapter 9: Reflection
Chapter 10: Optical Instruments

Section 2: Physical Optics
Chapter 11: Superposition, Diffraction and Interference

Section 3: Clinical Applications
Chapter 12: Finding the Focus in Real Experiments
Chapter 13: Photometry
Chapter 14: Low Vision Aids
Chapter 15: Polarisation
Chapter 16: Lenses for Imaging the Eye
Chapter 17: Wavefront Aberrations and Adaptive Optics
Chapter 18: Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Section 4: Experiments to Do at Home
Chapter 19: Create Your Own Camera Obscura
Chapter 20: Create a Blue Sky in your Kitchen
Chapter 21: Create a Prism
Chapter 22: Measure the Speed of Light
Answers to Practice Questions

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

An engaging, full-color introduction to the complex topic of visual optics

Editorial Reviews

"Visual optics deals with the study of light, how images are formed by optical systems (lenses, mirrors, and eyes), how vision is affected by these, and how clinicians measure and correct for refractive errors. This book is well crafted to make these "heavy" topics "light." It is rich with colorful, well-designed illustrations and step-by-step solutions to common types of optics problems students will have to master. It also includes excellent self-assessment questions and experiments to enhance understanding. The ebook provides videos which are great additions to the written material." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, John Mark Jackson, OD, MS (Southern College of Optometry)

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