Geometric, Physical, and Visual Optics


Book Description

A basic optics textbook that integrates relevant visual and ophthalmic optics material with basic geometric and physical optics. Dr. Keating's book uses the vergence approach to optics as well as the wavefront approach to vergence as an aid to developing optics intuition. * - Basic textbook on the integrated approach to geometric, physical, and introductory visual optics. * - Features a unique, early emphasis on image formation, the use of the vergence-dioptric power approach from the beginning, the relation of vergence tothe geometric properties of wavefronts, and the interchangeability of the wavefront representation with the ray representation. * - Emphasis on developing intuition and conceptual understanding so that the numbers mean something to the reader.




Geometric, Physical, and Visual Optics


Book Description

A basic optics textbook that integrates relevant visual and ophthalmic optics material with basic geometric and physical optics. Dr. Keating's book uses the vergence approach to optics as well as the wavefront approach to vergence as an aid to developing optics intuition.




Geometric, Physical, and Visual Optics


Book Description

* Fundamental text for an optometric curriculum, a student studying for the optometry boards, or a person interested in optics and vision * Uses the vergence-dioptric power-wavefront approach from the beginning * Emphasizes conceptual understanding and development of intuition




Geometrical and Visual Optics, Second Edition


Book Description

Complete coverage of optics information for clinicians. This 2 edition is a comprehensive introduction to the optical principles upon which clinical practice is based. Among the features of this student-friendly textbook are: Self-assessment questions at the end of every chapter. Comprehensive practice examinations. Workbook-style approach teaches students a problem-solving methodology, avoids unnecesary mathematics.




Geometrical and Visual Optics, Third Edition


Book Description

The acclaimed introductory text to geometrical and visual optics --- now in full color Doody's Core Titles for 2021! Geometrical and Visual Optics, Third Edition is a rigorous, yet approachable text that expertly combines basic optics with clinical application in a way that brings key optometry topics to life. It is meant to be a concise and user-friendly resource for clinicians as they begin their study of optics, and as they eventually prepare for licensing examinations. The book emphasizes optical concepts and problem-solving skills that underlie contemporary clinical eye care, and because of its clinical utility, a vergence approach is stressed. FEATURES: 3 complete practice exams, totaling 122 questions 200+ end-of-chapter self-assessment problems with detailed worked-out solutions Full-color figures and clinical highlights Learning Objectives appear at the beginning of each chapter Color highlighted summaries, sample problems, and tables Summary and list of formulas appear at the end of each chapter NEW CHAPTER on lens thickness; and prism coverage has been expanded to include vertical imbalance In-depth coverage of geometrical and visual optics spans the full spectrum of topics, from refraction at spherical surfaces, to thin and thick lenses, to depth of field, ametropia, magnification, retinal image size, and reflection Primary emphasis is on core concepts, with a minimum of formulas and superfluous mathematics




Introduction to Geometrical Optics


Book Description

This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of teaching Geometrical Optics. The volume is organised such that the single spherical refracting surface is the basic optical element. Spherical mirrors are treated as special cases of refraction, with the same applicable equations. Thin lens equations follow as combinations of spherical refracting surfaces while the cardinal points of the thick lens make it equivalent to a thin lens. Ultimately, one set of vergence equations are applicable to all these elements.The chapters are devoted to in-depth treatments of stops, pupils and ports; magnifiers, microscopes, telescopes, and camera lenses; ophthalmic instruments; resolving power and MTF; trigonometric ray tracing; and chromatic and monochromatic aberrations. There are over 100 worked examples, 400 homework problems and 400 illustrations.First published in 1994 by Penumbra Publishing Co.




Introduction to the Optics of the Eye


Book Description

This is an easy to read, but not overly simplistic, introduction to clinically important topics. Through their own experience, the authors have been able to address the current gap in textbooks and achieve a balance between "need to know" and "what to know." It provides an introductory chapter that covers the history of visual optics and its relation to clinical vision care.







Measuring Shadows


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In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.




Optics for Optometry Students


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Introduction of this new subject of optometry in the curriculum necessitates to understand its technology and different optical instruments that are used as visual aids and for accurate measurements of normal and defective human vision what are the new dimensions to eye care techniques. This book provides an up-to-date knowledge in different phenomena relating to optics. It covers aberrometry and wavefront technology, refraction at a plane and spherical surface, chromatic aberration, optical fibre, lenses and their varieties, light, wave light and simple harmonic, motion, holography, defraction and polarization of light coherence, laser, photometry, spectroscopy, the velocity of light and its importance, viscosity and fluid motion, contact lenses, etc. Includes many recent techniques of refractive errors and surgery of the eye. Incorporate skillfully the theory and art of practice of optics and refraction. Its text is so well organized that helps to understand, retain and reproduce facts easily. Provides a detailed study on action of the eye and response of eye to light color formation of image, far and near. This book is a complete current and perfect reference to study and understand and treat disorders of eye. Most of the disorders encountered in the clinic are covered with their signs and symptoms and procedures to treat visual disorders. Intimates on silicone hydro gels disposable lenses, guides to fitting, evaluating and trouble shooting contact lenses, disposable lenses and care systems as well as on clinical topics such as bifocals.