Author: HECHT, EUGENE
Title: Optics, 2nd Edition [Optics, Second Edition]
Description: Addison-Wesley, 1988. Second Edition. Revised; Hardcover. ISBN: 020111609X. Illustrated by Alfred Zajac. Hardcover has glazed boards. Black spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight; no underlining, highlighting, or other markings. Shows light signs of careful use. Corrected edition, April 1988. Exhaustively illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs, charts, diagrams, drawings, formulae, etc. Still has original sticker on it from Ulrich's Bookstore, in Ann Arbor, MI. Sections are: Brief History; Mathematics of Wave Motion; Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light; Propagation of Light; Geometrical Optics---Paraxial Theory; More on Geometrical Optics; Superposition of Waves; Polarization; Interference; Diffraction; Fourier Optics; Basics of Coherence Theory; Some Aspects of the Quantum Nature of Light; Sundry Topics from Contemporary Optics; two appendices; one table; solutions to selected problems; bibliography; index of tables; index. Oversized; 5#; B&W Illustrations; 1.4 x 9.3 x 8.6 Inches; x, 676 pages; Cover has light rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear, bumping.. Very Good+ .

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