Optics: Light for a New Age

Name: Optics: Light for a New Age
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Jeff Hecht

Apr 1987 · Jeff Hecht

5.0

1 review

Ebook

170

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

Young adult introduction to optics and light, including what light is and does, simple optics and how they work, the eye, light sources, light detection and robot vision, infrared and ultraviolet light, Optical instruments, cameras and television, fiber optics, light and life, ray guns and reality.

Ratings and reviews

5.0

1 review

Amit Das

August 18, 2016

Good book for FY BSc

About the author

Jeff Hecht writes about science and technology. His books include Understanding Lasers, Understanding Fiber Optics, Optics: Light for a New Age; City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics; Vanishing Life - the Mystery of Mass Extinctions; Shifting Shores - Rising Sea Level and Coastal Erosion; and Laser pioneers. He writes regularly for New Scientist and Laser Focus World.

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