Tag: fundamentals of optics

  • Application of matrix method to thick lens

    Application of matrix method to thick lens

    Optics Series Lecture, Lecture — VI All Optics series articles: https://mdashf.org/category/optics/.  Application of Matrix Method to Thick Lenses Topics covered in this lecture  A. Cardinal points  B. Thick lens equation and matrix for thick lens  C. System matrix for thin lens  D. Unit and Nodal planes  E. Matrix for a system of 2 thin lenses Our previous studies of…

  • How rainbows are created

    How rainbows are created

    How Rainbows are created. Optics lecture series – IV “Primary and Secondary rainbows”, a lecture in Optics. This lecture was delivered on February 02, 2017. Sunlight is white in color. Do you know Newton would have greatly disliked this statement, do you know why? “Color is not the property of light” but a property of an…

  • Fundamentals Of Optics by Francis Arthur Jenkins .. review

    This is a fabulous text on optics. Concise and conceptual. This is my prefered text on Optics and I own it.