The World of Light and Color

The book covers the physical origin of several natural phenomena such as color, refraction and reflection, apparent depth, mirages, rainbows, halos, color of the sky, polarization of the sky, etc., in simple optics’ models.

The content is presented in language that is accessible for large audience, however, calculus is highly recommended as it goes in depth discussing the topics.

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Nature’s Light and Color

Optics, Imaging, Aberrations

The textbook is devoted to the fundamentals of optical system design and analysis.

It is part of series on applied optics covering the math and theory of the Optical phenomena.

The book starts with short overview of the wave optics and transitions to the theory of geometric optics and its limitations. Only basic Fourier optics is covered that relate to the applications and design of optical and imaging systems. The third chapter covers concepts of simple imaging systems. The last fourth chapter, discusses the theory of third order aberrations.

The content is presented in language that is accessible for large audience, however, calculus is highly recommended as it goes in depth discussing the topics.

This and other low cost editions at: http://amazon.com/author/popmintchev

Introduction to Design of Optical Systems: Optics, Imaging, Aberrations ...