
Optics
Eugene Hecht(Author)
Pearson (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 2. March 2017
Book
Hardback
720 pages
978-0-13-397722-6 (ISBN)
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Description
A Contemporary Approach to Optics with Practical Applications and New Focused Pedagogy Hecht Optics balances theory and instrumentation to provide you with the necessary, classical background through a lively and clear narrative. Optics, Fifth Edition is distinguished by three core imperatives for the reader: up-to-date content in line with the ever-evolving technological advances in the Optics field; a modern approach to discourse including studies on photons, phasors, and theory; and improvements and revisions to the previous edition's pedagogy including over one hundred new worked examples.
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Edition
5th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 218 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
161 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-397722-6 (9780133977226)
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Previous edition

Eugene Hecht
Optics
Book
08/2001
4th Edition
Pearson Education (US)
€179.74
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Person
Gene Hecht is a professor of physics at Adelphi University and author of a number of books including three on American ceramics and seven on physics. His main interests are the history of ideas and the elucidation of the basic concepts of physics. He spends most of his time teaching, studying physics, and training for his fifth degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do.
Content
1: A Brief History
2: Wave Motion
3: Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light
4: The Propagation of Light
5: Geometrical Optics
6: More on Geometrical Optics
7: The Superposition of Waves
8: Polarization
9: Interference
10: Diffraction
11: Fourier Optics
12: Basics of Coherence Theory
13: Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics
2: Wave Motion
3: Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light
4: The Propagation of Light
5: Geometrical Optics
6: More on Geometrical Optics
7: The Superposition of Waves
8: Polarization
9: Interference
10: Diffraction
11: Fourier Optics
12: Basics of Coherence Theory
13: Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics