Optics: Light for a New AgeYoung adult introduction to optics and light, including what light is and does, simple optics and how they work, the eye, light sources, light detection and robot vision, infrared and ultraviolet light, Optical instruments, cameras and television, fiber optics, light and life, ray guns and reality. |
Contents
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Simple Optics and How They Work | 18 |
The Eye and How It Works | 33 |
Sources of Light | 45 |
Light Detection and Robot Vision | 61 |
The Infrared and the Ultraviolet | 74 |
Optical Instruments | 84 |
Cameras and Television | 93 |
Common terms and phrases
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