Optics
Subtitle: learning by computing with examples using MathCad MATLAB, Mathematica, and Maple
By: K.D. Möller.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics; Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780387261683
Subjects: Maple (Computer file); MathCAD; MATLAB; Mathematica (Computer program language); Geometrical optics -- Data processing
Description: "This new edition is intended for a one semester course in optics for juniors and seniors in science and engineering; it uses scripts from MathCad, MATLAB, Mathematica, and Maple and provides a simulated laboratory where students can learn by exploration and discovery instead of passive absorption. The text covers all the standard topics of a traditional optics course, including: geometrical optics and aberration, interference and diffraction, coherence, Maxwell's equations, wave guides and propagating modes, blackbody radiation, atomic emission and lasers, optical properties of materials, Fourier transforms and FT spectroscopy, image formation, and holography. It contains step by step derivations of all basic formulas in geometrical, wave and Fourier optics"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.