OPTICS (Ray and Wave)

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Contents of this book

Ray Optics

  1. Reflection of light, spherical mirrors and mirror formula.
  2. Refraction of light.
  3. Total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres.
  4. Refraction through a spherical surface, lenses, thin lens formula.
  5. Lens makers formula, Magnification and Power of a lens.
  6. Combination of thin lenses in contact.
  7. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.
  8. Scattering of light – blue colour of sky and reddish appearance of sun at sunrise and sunset.
  9. Optical instruments – Microscope and astronomical telescope (refracting and reflecting) and their magnifying power.

Wave Optics

  1. Wave fronts and Huygens’s Principle. Reflection and refraction using Huygens’s principle.
  2. Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’s principle.
  3. Interference and coherent sources, sustained interference.
  4. Young’s double slit experiment and its expression for fringe width.
  5. Diffraction through a single slit.  Expression for the central maxima.
  6. Resolving power of an astronomical telescope and microscope.
  7. Polarisation – Plane polarised wave.
  8. Brewster’s laws and uses of plane polarised light and polaroids.

1 review for OPTICS (Ray and Wave)

  1. Jasminder Jeet Singh

    This book is one of the best book on opitcs.

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