Principles of optics [E-Book] / Max Born and Emil Wolf ; with contibutions by A.B. Bhatia [and others] ; foreword by Sir Peter Knight.
Principles of Optics is one of the most highly cited and most influential physics books ever published, and one of the classic science books of the twentieth century. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of this remarkable book's first publication, the seventh expanded edition has been reprinted w...
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Personal Name(s): | Born, Max, author |
Wolf, Emil, author | |
Edition: |
Seventh (expanded) anniversary edition, 60th anniversary edition. |
Imprint: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xl, 952 pages) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9781108769914 9781108477437 |
Subject (LOC): |
- Basic properties of the electromagnetic field
- Electromagnetic potentials and polarization
- Foundations of geometrical optics
- Geometrical theory of optical imaging
- Geometrical theory of aberrations
- Image-forming instruments
- Elements of the theory of interference and interferometers
- Elements of the theory of diffraction
- The diffraction theory of aberrations
- Interference and diffraction with partially coherent light
- Rigorous diffraction theory
- Diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves
- Scattering from inhomogeneous media
- Optics of metals
- Optics of crystals
- Appendices.