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ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: SINUSOIDAL WAVES AND FOURIER'S THEOREM, THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM. PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGTH SPEED; RAYS AND WAVE FRONTS; OPTICAL PATH AND FERMAT'S PRINCIPLE. GEOMETRICAL OPTICS: REFLECTION AND REFRACTION, SNELL LAWS; TOTAL REFLECTION; DISPERSION AND OPTICAL PRISM. OPTICAL SYSTEMS: CONCEPT OF SOURCE AND IMAGE; VERGENCE OF LIGHT AND OPTICAL POWER; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; SPHERICAL DIOPTER; THIN LENSES; TRANSVERSE , AXIAL AND ANGULAR MAGNIFICATION; LAGRANGE- HELMHOLTZ THEOREM, MAGNIFYING LENS, THICK LENSES, GULLSTRAND FORMULA; NOMINAL, EFFECTIVE AND FRONT POWER; COMBINATIONS OF LENSES, PLANE AND SPHERICAL MIRRORS; ABERRATION. WAVE OPTICS: FRESNEL-HUYGENS PRINCIPLE; ENERGY TRANSPORTED BY AN E.M. WAVE; POLARIZATION OF LIGTH, PHASE OF SINUSOIDAL WAVES; COHERENT AND INCOHERENT SOURCES; INTERFERENCE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; YOUNG’S EXPERIENCE; INTERFERENCE IN THIN FILMS; DIFFRACTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES, FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION FROM A SINGLE AND DOUBLE SLIT; RESOLVING POWER OF A SLIT.

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MAYER_AREDTN J. R INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL AND MODERN OPTICS [PRENTICE HALL INC.]