About the Book
This text book is written for the B.Sc. (prog), B.Sc. (Hons.) and B.E. Students of all Indian and Foreign Universities. These will be useful also for various Competitive entrance examinations, e.g., IIT, IAS, NET-SLET, UGC-CSIR, etc.
The book has been thoroughly revised and enlarged, keeping in view the suggestions received from Students and Teachers. Some of the new topics included are : Photometry, Fibre Optics, Optical Instruments, Lasers and Holography, Non-linear Optics, Explanation of total internal reflection, Reflection and refraction of a spherical wavefront at spherical surface, Febry Perot Interferometer, Focault’s Rotating Mirror Method, Mechelson’s Method, Pease and Pearson Method, Velocity or Wireless waves, Microwave cavity method, Laws of refraction at spherical surface etc.
- Introduction: Nature of Light
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Interference (Division of Wavefront, Division of Amplitude)
- Lasers and Holography (Quantum Optics)
- Diffraction
- Polarisation of Light
- (Double Refraction, Production and Analysis of Polarised Light, Rotation of Plane of Polarisation)
- Non-Linear Optics
- Cardinal Point of a System of Coaxial Lenses
- Despersion of light
- Velocity of Light
- Fermat’s Principle
- Photometry
- Fibre Optics
- Optical Instruments
- Quantum Nature of Light
- Matter Waves and Uncertainty Principle
- Atomic Structure
- Optical Phenomena
- Elements of Crystal Structure and X-Rays
- Special Theory of Relativity
- Wave Mechanics
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ISBN13:
978-93-5161-040-3
Weight:
610.00
Edition:
15th Revised Edition
Language:
English
Title Code:
572