Introduction to Visual Optics
A Light Approach
- 1st Edition - October 4, 2022
- Latest edition
- Author: Samantha Strong
- Language: English
**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award Winner**Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the t… Read more
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Description
Description
**2026 Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) Textbook Excellence "Texty" Award Winner**
Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the text that is easy to comprehend, visually appealing, and engaging from cover to cover. Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach covers the basic information you need in this complex area in a significantly more approachable manner than other resources on the market. You’ll find clear, easy-to-read explanations that work hand-in-hand with colourful charts, graphs, illustrations, and diagrams created by the author, Dr. Samantha Strong. This unique text is perfect for optometry students, optometrists, ophthalmology residents, student dispensing opticians, and others in the eye care field.
Get the foundational knowledge you need in the area of visual optics with the text that is easy to comprehend, visually appealing, and engaging from cover to cover. Introduction to Visual Optics: A Light Approach covers the basic information you need in this complex area in a significantly more approachable manner than other resources on the market. You’ll find clear, easy-to-read explanations that work hand-in-hand with colourful charts, graphs, illustrations, and diagrams created by the author, Dr. Samantha Strong. This unique text is perfect for optometry students, optometrists, ophthalmology residents, student dispensing opticians, and others in the eye care field.
Key features
Key features
- Covers foundational visual optics knowledge, from refraction to reflection, vergence, and more in a fun, easy-to-read format
- Features a highly visual format, with full-colour illustrations, tables, and boxes throughout to aid in understanding and memory recall
- Discusses underlying principles of several key ophthalmic imaging techniques
- Includes experiments you can try at home (create your own cornea, build a camera obscura, create a blue sky in your kitchen, create an interference film, create a prism) with companion demonstration videos to facilitate and apply key learning objectives
- Contains approximately 200 practice questions and equations throughout that test your knowledge of core concepts
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud
Readership
Readership
Optometry students; optometrists
Table of contents
Table of contents
Section 1. Geometric and Basic Optics
1. Basics of Light and Colour
2. Vergence and Refraction
3. Thin Lenses
4. Ray Tracing
5. Equivalent Lenses
6. Thick Lenses
7. Dispersion and Chromatic Aberration
8. Prisms
9. Reflection
10. Optical Instruments
Section 2. Physical Optics
11. Superposition, Diffraction and Interference
Section 3. Clinical Applications
12. Finding the Focus in Real Experiments
13. Photometry
14. Low Vision Aids
15. Polarisation
16. Lenses for Imaging the Eye
17. Wavefront Aberrations and Adaptive Optics
18. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Section 4. Experiments to Do at Home
19. Create Your Own Camera Obscura
20. Create a Blue Sky in your Kitchen
21. Create a Prism
22. Measure the Speed of Light
Answers to Practice Questions
1. Basics of Light and Colour
2. Vergence and Refraction
3. Thin Lenses
4. Ray Tracing
5. Equivalent Lenses
6. Thick Lenses
7. Dispersion and Chromatic Aberration
8. Prisms
9. Reflection
10. Optical Instruments
Section 2. Physical Optics
11. Superposition, Diffraction and Interference
Section 3. Clinical Applications
12. Finding the Focus in Real Experiments
13. Photometry
14. Low Vision Aids
15. Polarisation
16. Lenses for Imaging the Eye
17. Wavefront Aberrations and Adaptive Optics
18. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Section 4. Experiments to Do at Home
19. Create Your Own Camera Obscura
20. Create a Blue Sky in your Kitchen
21. Create a Prism
22. Measure the Speed of Light
Answers to Practice Questions
Review quotes
Review quotes
"Visual optics deals with the study of light, how images are formed by optical systems (lenses, mirrors, and eyes), how vision is affected by these, and how clinicians measure and correct for refractive errors. This book is well crafted to make these "heavy" topics "light." It is rich with colorful, well-designed illustrations and step-by-step solutions to common types of optics problems students will have to master. It also includes excellent self-assessment questions and experiments to enhance understanding. The ebook provides videos which are great additions to the written material." -©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, John Mark Jackson, OD, MS (Southern College of Optometry)
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 7, 2023
- Language: English
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