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Author : Christiaan Huygens
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752308168
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book Treatise On Light written by Christiaan Huygens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Treatise On Light by Christiaan Huygens
Author : Richard Cockburn Maclaurin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Light written by Richard Cockburn Maclaurin and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ware
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312929278
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Physics of Light and Optics (Black & White) written by Michael Ware and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Treatise of Optics written by Joseph Harris and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas D. Rossing
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303027103X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Light Science written by Thomas D. Rossing and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for students in the visual arts and for others with an interest in art, but with no prior knowledge of physics, this book presents the science behind what and how we see. The approach emphasises phenomena rather than mathematical theories and the joy of discovery rather than the drudgery of derivations. The text includes numerous problems, and suggestions for simple experiments, and also considers such questions as why the sky is blue, how mirrors and prisms affect the colour of light, how compact disks work, and what visual illusions can tell us about the nature of perception. It goes on to discuss such topics as the optics of the eye and camera, the different sources of light, photography and holography, colour in printing and painting, as well as computer imaging and processing.
Author : Henry Coddington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Treatise on the Reflection and Refraction of light written by Henry Coddington and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mohammad D. Al-Amri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319319035
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Optics in Our Time written by Mohammad D. Al-Amri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. In this book we present a vast collection of articles on various aspects of light and its applications in the contemporary world at a popular or semi-popular level. These articles are written by the world authorities in their respective fields. This is therefore a rare volume where the world experts have come together to present the developments in this most important field of science in an almost pedagogical manner. This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, and the other on the scientific achievements of Ibn-Haitham (Alhazen), who is broadly considered the father of modern optics. These are then followed by an article on ultrafast phenomena and the invisible world. The third part includes papers on specific sources of light, the discoveries of which have revolutionized optical technologies in our lifetime. They discuss the nature and the characteristics of lasers, Solid-state lighting based on the Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, and finally modern electron optics and its relationship to the Muslim golden age in science. The book’s fourth part discusses various applications of optics and light in today's world, including biophotonics, art, optical communication, nanotechnology, the eye as an optical instrument, remote sensing, and optics in medicine. In turn, the last part focuses on quantum optics, a modern field that grew out of the interaction of light and matter. Topics addressed include atom optics, slow, stored and stationary light, optical tests of the foundation of physics, quantum mechanical properties of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, quantum communication, and Wave-Particle dualism in action.
Author : Alhazen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780854810727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham written by Alhazen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Mark Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652857X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book From Sight to Light written by A. Mark Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift—which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the “Keplerian turn”—lies at the heart of this fascinating and pioneering study. Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler’s new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument—as traditionally understood—Kepler’s account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history.
Author : J.F Nye
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750306102
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light written by J.F Nye and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new kind of optics has grown up during the last 25 years. Geometrical optics has been studied for centuries (the law of reflection was known to the ancient Greeks) and wave optics (heralded by Huygens' Treatise on Light) has been studied for more than 300 years. But in the mid 1970s it began to be understood that when natural processes focus light, as when sunlight is reflected from the sea at sunset, the light caustics that are produced have a systematic behavior previously unrecognized. Natural Focusing and Fine Structure of Light: Caustics and Wave Dislocations provides a definitive account of how classical optics has been reconstructed in a modern way by emphasizing the hierarchy of singularities that exists in light fields. The book discusses the singularities of geometrical optics and their systematization by catastrophe theory. It explores the diffraction patterns associated with caustics that are dominated by wave dislocations, line singularities of the phase, and analogous to crystal dislocations. The book is a perfect blend of mathematics and physics, combining theory, computer simulation, and beautiful experimental photographs of the phenomena studied.
Author : Michael A. Pelissier
Publisher : SEG Books
ISBN 13 : 1560801425
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Classics of Elastic Wave Theory written by Michael A. Pelissier and published by SEG Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 16 classic essays from the 17th to the 21st centuries on aspects of elastic wave theory.
Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698629
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception written by Ptolemy and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand Publication. This is a reprint, this is not an original. Contents: Introduction; Ptolemy: A Biographical Sketch; The "Optics": A Biographical Sketch; An Overview of the "Optics"; The Historical Influence of the "Optics"; English Translation; & Bibliography. The English translation of this text is based upon Albert Lejeune's critical Latin text of 1956, which was reprinted in the 1990s along with a French translation & supplementary annotations. Illus.
Author : Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326871536
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Light, heat and sound in Robert Grosseteste’s Physics written by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Grosseteste was one of the most prominent thinkers of the Thirteenth Century. Philosopher and scientist, he was Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253. He was heavily influenced by Augustine, whose thought permeates his writings, but he also made extensive use of the thought of Aristotle, Avicenna and Averroes. Grosseteste's physics is the science of Nature, of which we will discuss in this book. This science is quite different from the Galilean physics. However, in the scientific treatises written by Grosseteste, we find some features preparing the born of the new physics that produced the Galilean revolution and the Newtonian mechanics. This is the reason why Robert Grosseteste, English statesman, philosopher and scientist, is defined by Alistair Cameron Crombie as the real founder of the tradition of the scientific thought in Oxford. In this book we will propose a discussion of this Grosseteste's physics, in particular that which in described in his treatises on light, heat and sound.
Author : Wick Welker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735537450
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Refraction written by Wick Welker and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times does it take to destroy the world before you can save it?In 1986, physicist Timothy Straus hears voices that teach him how to create a space-warping engine that will change the world. In 2098, a fighter pilot hears voices that help him fight an authoritarian corporatist regime in the ashes of nuclear fallout. In 2155, the only self-aware robot on Mars struggles to steer humanity away from a demagogue who speaks from the shadows. Told through kaleidoscope storytelling across space and time, these three people are connected in ways they could never imagine. As they pull on the strings of the multiverse, what they can't see is that every villain begins as a savior-every enemy starts as a friend. With the power to refract reality, will they learn that one person can't save the people? That only the people can save the people?
Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141965010
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Pathfinders written by Jim Al-Khalili and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. All scientists have stood on the shoulders of giants. But most historical accounts today suggest that the achievements of the ancient Greeks were not matched until the European Renaissance in the 16th century, a 1,000-year period dismissed as the Dark Ages. In the ninth-century, however, the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Abu Ja'far Abdullah al-Ma'mun, created the greatest centre of learning the world had ever seen, known as Bayt al-Hikma, the House of Wisdom. The scientists and philosophers he brought together sparked a period of extraordinary discovery, in every field imaginable, launching a golden age of Arabic science. Few of these scientists, however, are now known in the western world. Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, a polymath who outshines everyone in history except Leonardo da Vinci? The Syrian astronomer Ibn al-Shatir, whose manuscripts would inspire Copernicus's heliocentric model of the solar system? Or the 13th-century Andalucian physician Ibn al-Nafees, who correctly described blood circulation 400 years before William Harvey? Iraqi Ibn al-Haytham who practised the modern scientific method 700 years before Bacon and Descartes, and founded the field of modern optics before Newton? Or even ninth-century zoologist al-Jahith, who developed a theory of natural selection a thousand years before Darwin? The West needs to see the Islamic world through new eyes and the Islamic world, in turn, to take pride in its extraordinarily rich heritage. Anyone who reads this book will understand why.
Author : Max Born
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 148310320X
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Principles of Optics written by Max Born and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light, Sixth Edition covers optical phenomenon that can be treated with Maxwell's phenomenological theory. The book is comprised of 14 chapters that discuss various topics about optics, such as geometrical theories, image forming instruments, and optics of metals and crystals. The text covers the elements of the theories of interference, interferometers, and diffraction. The book tackles several behaviors of light, including its diffraction when exposed to ultrasonic waves. The selection will be most useful to researchers whose work involves understanding the behavior of light.
Author : Craig F. Bohren
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 3527618163
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles written by Craig F. Bohren and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles Treating absorption and scattering in equal measure, this self-contained, interdisciplinary study examines and illustrates how small particles absorb and scatter light. The authors emphasize that any discussion of the optical behavior of small particles is inseparable from a full understanding of the optical behavior of the parent material-bulk matter. To divorce one concept from the other is to render any study on scattering theory seriously incomplete. Special features and important topics covered in this book include: * Classical theories of optical properties based on idealized models * Measurements for three representative materials: magnesium oxide, aluminum, and water * An extensive discussion of electromagnetic theory * Numerous exact and approximate solutions to various scattering problems * Examples and applications from physics, astrophysics, atmospheric physics, and biophysics * Some 500 references emphasizing work done since Kerker's 1969 work on scattering theory * Computer programs for calculating scattering by spheres, coated spheres, and infinite cylinders
