Università Roma Tre

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: SINUSOIDAL WAVES AND FOURIER'S THEOREM, THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM; PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LIGTH SPEED; ENERGY TRANSPORTED BY AN E.M. WAVE; 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; GAUSS APPROXIMATION; VERGENCE OF LIGHT AND OPTICAL POWER; FOCAL POINTS AND FOCAL DISTANCE; EQUATION OF THE CONIUGATED POINTS; TRANSVERSE, AXIAL AND ANGULAR MAGNIFICATION; GRAPHICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGE.
EQUATIONS AND DETERMINATION OF THE IMAGE FORMED BY: PLANE AND SPHERICAL MIRRORS; SPHERICAL DIOPTERS; THIN LENSES.
THICK LENSES AND SYSTEMS OF LENSES: GULLSTRAND FORMULA; NOMINAL, EFFECTIVE AND FRONT POWERS; CARDINAL POINTS; STEP ALONG METHOD; PRINCIPAL PLANES AN EQUIVALENT EQUATIONS OF GAUSS AND NEWTON.
OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS: MAGNIFYING LENS; TELESCOPE; MICROSCOPE.
OPTICAL ABERRATIONS: CHROMATIC ABERRATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATION; COMA; ASTIGMATISM, CURVATURE OF THE FIELD OF THE IMAGE; DISTORTION; DIFFRACTION EFFECT ON THE IMAGE; RESOLVING POWER OF A SLIT; AIRY DISK.

WALKER J.S., FONDAMENTI DI FISICA, ED. ZANICHELLI
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