INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OPTICS
Written by John Kellock Robertson
Published by Chapman & Hall
in 1935
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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OPTICS
Written by John Kellock Robertson.
Stock no. 810851
2nd.
1935.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Second Edition, revised and corrected. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt titles. B/w diagrams. xi and 471 pages including index. Top and tail of spine lightly worn. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Text block lightly browned. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned & foxed, edge-torn with slight loss.
Front cover
Contents
- I. Why We Study Wave-Motion
- II. Study of Wave-Motion
- III. Reflec tion and Refration on Huygen's Principle
- IV. Further Study of Lenses
- V. Vision Through an Instrument. The Telescope
- VI. Dispersion
- VII. Some Facts Concerning the Spectrum
- VIII. Interference
- IX. Interference (continued). Thin Films and Plane Parallel Surfaces
- X. Diffraction
- XI. Fraunhofer Diffraction
- XII. Double Refraction
- XIII. Plane Polarized Light
- XIV. Interference of Polarized Light
- XV. Rotatory Polarization
- XVI. The Electromagnetic Theory of Light
- XVII. The Origin of Spectra. Preliminary Discussion.
- XVIII. The Quantum Theory and Origin of Spectra
- XIX. Radiation Potentials; Absorption and Band Spetra
- XX. The Dilemma
- XXI. Can the Existence of an Ether be Detected?