* Fundamental text for an optometric curriculum, a student studying for the optometry boards, or a person interested in optics and vision * Uses the vergence-dioptric power-wavefront approach from the beginning * Emphasizes conceptual understanding and development of intuition
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"keating provides an excellent text for the optometry student and practitioners. Very straightforward and accessible."
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Completely revised and updated, you will benefit from new and rewritten sections on: axial magnification * Jackson Cross Cylinder tests * retinoscopy reflex motions * field of view * the optics of indirect ophthalmoscopy * optical aberrations * diffractive lenses * the Doppler shift * lasers and the similarities and differences of Gaussian laser beams versus the propagation of light from a point source * plus, a new appendix on angles and basic trigonometry. Although not a matrix optics text, matrices are used extensively in the chapters on spherical systems and off-axis aspects of astigmatism. In particular, the matrix treatment of astigmatism serves as a foundation for the recently developed, much improved statistical techniques that deal with refractive corrections and astigmatism in all its aspects.
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When learning geometric optics, one usually learns concepts and equations using ordinary algebra. In this text, linear algebra is used. It gives the reader another way to manipulate problems than typically used. Highly recommended!
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The book is well written in the sense for people who want to have fundamental knowledge on optics in the sense of vision and image from human eyes. It also provides abundant infromation on the basics that help people from either engineering or medical background.
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The book has all of the information you need, with hand drawn diagrams. The author goes to great pains to thoroughly explain each concept. For the price, I would have expected a professional artist, with color pages and better paper quality, but when all is said and done, the author is good at explaining the concepts.
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collimating magnifier, nodal ray, line image position, prism base directions, spectacle accommodative demand, optical center line, cylinder axis meridian, spherocylindrical lens, back vertex power, prism effectivity, spectacle magnification, predictable rays, catoptric power, real image position, secondary focal plane, vergence incident, refractive myope, total lateral magnification, secondary focal length, minus cylinder axis, simulating aperture, paraxial image position, spherical refracting interface, front surface power, axial myope Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Single Spherical Refracting Interfaces, Thin Lens Eye Models, Prism Properties of Lenses, Thin Lens Equations, Spatial Distribution of Optical Information, Consider Figure, The Geometric Behavior of Light, Lenses Revisited, Vul Gar, Aberrations Figure, Badal's Principle, Ranger Rick, Rich Destiny, Suppose Larry, Vision Figure, Archie Meedes, Nick Name, Use Newton New!
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collimating magnifier, nodal ray, line image position, prism base directions, spectacle accommodative demand, optical center line, cylinder axis meridian, spherocylindrical lens, back vertex power, prism effectivity, spectacle magnification, predictable rays, catoptric power, real image position, secondary focal plane, vergence incident, refractive myope, total lateral magnification, secondary focal length, minus cylinder axis, simulating aperture, paraxial image position, spherical refracting interface, front surface power, axial myope Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Single Spherical Refracting Interfaces, Thin Lens Eye Models, Prism Properties of Lenses, Thin Lens Equations, Spatial Distribution of Optical Information, Consider Figure, The Geometric Behavior of Light, Lenses Revisited, Vul Gar, Aberrations Figure, Badal's Principle, Ranger Rick, Rich Destiny, Suppose Larry, Vision Figure, Archie Meedes, Nick Name, Use Newton New!
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