With nearly 30 years of experience in teaching optics, Dr. Keating offers a new edition of this reader-friendly book to enhance your understanding of geometric, physical and visual optics. Written primarily for optometry students, the core of basic optics, including thin lenses, ametropia corrections, accommodation, introductory astigmatism and refraction techniques, prisms, and prisms in lenses, are contained in the first 12 chapters. Many students need percolation time to absorb some of the abstract concepts in optics. Dr. Keating introduces some concepts in early chapters and then returns to a more advanced treatment in later chapters providing you with adequate time to absorb difficult concepts. Completely revised and updated, the reader should benefit from new and rewritten sections on: axial magnification, Jackson Cross Cylinder tests, retinoscopy, reflex motions, field of view, the optics of indirect ophthalmoscopy, optical aberrations, diffractive lenses, the Doppler shift, lasers and the similarities and differences of Gaussian laser beams versus the propagation of light from a point source, plus, a new appendix on angles and basic trigonometry. Although not a matrix optics text, matrices are used extensively in the chapters on spherical systems and off-axis aspects of astigmatism. In particular, the matrix treatment of astigmatism serves as a foundation for the recently developed, much improved statistical techniques that deal with refractive corrections and astigmatism in all its aspects.
By:
Michael P. Keating (Professor Michigan College of Optometry Ferris State University Big Rapids MI)
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 276mm,
Width: 215mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.520kg
ISBN: 9780750672627
ISBN 10: 0750672625
Pages: 632
Publication Date: 06 November 2001
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Replaced By: 9781483289465
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Optics, Light, and Vision; The Geometric Behavior Of Light; Optical Objects and Images; Thin Lenses and Ray Diagrams; Thin Lens Equations; Thin Lens Eye Models; Single Spherical Refracting Interfaces; Plane Refracting Interfaces and Reduced Systems; Lenses Revisited; Astigmatism: On Axis; Prisms; Prism Properties Of Lenses; Prism and Dioptric Power In Off-Axis Meridians; Reflection; The Gauss System; System Matrices; Angular Magnification; Spectacle Magnification and Relative Spectacle Magnification; Stops and Related Effects; Aberrations; Waves and Superposition; Diffraction; Scattering, Absorption, Dispersion, and Polarization; Emission, Absorption, Photons, and Lasers; Spatial Distribution Of Optical Information; Appendix A: Trigonometry Review; Appendix B: Basic Matrix Algebra
Reviews for Geometric, Physical, and Visual Optics
keating provides an excellent text for the optometry student and practitioners. Very straightforward and accessible.
