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	Optics by Ghatak
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This text provides a comprehensive, balanced account of traditional optics, as well as many of the recent developments in the field. Designed to meet the optics course requirements for undergraduate students of science and engineering, Optics is also an excellent reference source for practicing engineers wanting to obtain a greater understanding of optics.

Key Features:

A large number of figures correspond to actual numerical calculations which were generated using software like GNUPLOT and Mathematica.
All important formulas have been derived from first principles so that the book can also be used for self-study
Rich pedagogical features include
296 Problems
128 Solved examples
575 Illustrations

About the Author
Ajoy Ghatak, Department of Physics, IIT Delhi

Table of Contents
1. History of Optics
2. What is Light?
Part “ 1 Geometrical Optics
3. Fermat`s Principle and Its Applications
4. Refraction and Reflection by Spherical Surfaces
5. The Matrix Method in Paraxial Optics
6. Aberrations
Part “ 2 Vibrations and Waves
7. Simple Harmonic Motion, Forced Vibrations and Origin of Refractive Index
8. Fourier Series and Applications
9. The Dirac Delta Function and Fourier Transforms
10. Group Velocity and Pulse Dispersion
11. Wave Propagation and the Wave Equation
12. Huygens` Principle and Its Applications
Part “ 3 Interference
13. Superposition of Waves
14. Two Beam Interference by Division isbn
9781259004346