Description
Contents of this book
Ray Optics
- Reflection of light, spherical mirrors and mirror formula.
- Refraction of light.
- Total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres.
- Refraction through a spherical surface, lenses, thin lens formula.
- Lens makers formula, Magnification and Power of a lens.
- Combination of thin lenses in contact.
- Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
- Scattering of light – blue colour of sky and reddish appearance of sun at sunrise and sunset.
- Optical instruments – Microscope and astronomical telescope (refracting and reflecting) and their magnifying power.
Wave Optics
- Wave fronts and Huygens’s Principle. Reflection and refraction using Huygens’s principle.
- Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’s principle.
- Interference and coherent sources, sustained interference.
- Young’s double slit experiment and its expression for fringe width.
- Diffraction through a single slit. Expression for the central maxima.
- Resolving power of an astronomical telescope and microscope.
- Polarisation – Plane polarised wave.
- Brewster’s laws and uses of plane polarised light and polaroids.
Jasminder Jeet Singh –
This book is one of the best book on opitcs.