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INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL OPTICS

by John Kellock Robertson

Published by Chapman & Hall. 2nd. 1935

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.

Stock no. 810851

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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?

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