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Title: Introduction to light: the physics of light, vision and color

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OSTI ID:6434877

This book designed as a text for a one-semester undergraduate course presents a nonmathematical treatment of optics. The material is divided into 11 chapters entitled: Early Ideas of Light, the Classical Theories, Modern Theories, Geometrical Optics, Polarization, Lasers, Holography, the Eye, Seeing, Light and Color in Nature, and Color Science. Additional mathematical details are included in the three appendixes. (BLM)

OSTI ID:
6434877
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English