Translation of: Optik

Includes bibliographical references and index

Front Cover; Optics: Lectures on Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; Preface; Translator's Note; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. Geometrical, Physical, and Physiological Optics. Historical Chart; CHAPTER I. REFLECTION AND REFRACTION OF LIGHT; 2. Review of Electrodynamics. Basic Principles of Ideal and Natural Light; 3. Fresnel's Formulae. Transitions from Rarer to Denser Media; 4. Graphical Discussion of Fresnel's Formulae. Brewster's Law; 5. Total Reflection; 6. Metallic Reflection; 7. Colors of Thin Membranes and Thick Plates; 8. Standing Light W'aves

CHAPTER II. OPTICS OF MOVING MEDIA AND SOURCES. ASTRONOMICAL TOPICS9. Measurement of the Velocity of Light; 10. Aberration and Parallax; 11. The Doppler Effect; 12. Fresnel's Coefficient of Drag and Fizeau's Experiment; 13. Reflection by a Moving Mirror; 14. The Michelson Experiment; 15. The Experiments of Harress, Sagnac, and Michelson-Gale; 16. The Quantum Theory of Light; CHAPTER III. THEORY OF DISPERSION; 17. Ultraviolet Resonance Oscillations of the Electrons; 18. Infrared Resonance Oscillations of the Ions in Addition to Ultraviolet Electron Resonance Oscillations

19. Anomalous Dispersion20. Magnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarization; 21. The Normal Zeeman Effect and Some Remarks on the Anomalous Zeeman Effect; 22. Phase Velocity, Signal Velocity, Group Velocity; 23. The Wave Mechanical Theory of Dispersion; CHAPTER IV. CRYSTAL OPTICS; 24. Fresnel's Ellipsoid, Index Ellipsoid, Principal Dielectric Axes; 25. The Structure of the Plane Wave and Its Polarization; 26. Dual Relations, Ray Surface and Normal Surface, Optic Axes; 27. The Problem of Double Refraction; 28. The Optical Symmetry of Crystals; 29. Optically Active Crystals and Fluids

30. Nicol's Prism, Quarter Wave Plate, Tourmaline Tongs, and Dichroism31. Interference Phenomena due to Crystal Plates in Parallel and in Converging Polarized Light; CHAPTER V. THE THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; 32. Theory of Gratings; 33. Diffraction Arising from Many Randomly Distributed Particles; 34. Huygens' Principle; 35. The Problem of the Shadow in Geometrical and in Wave Optics; 36. Fraunhofer Diffraction by Rectangles and Circles; 37. Fresnel Diffraction by a Slit; 38. Rigorous Solutions of Certain Diffraction Problems; CHAPTER VI. ADDENDA, CHIEFLY TO THE THEORY OF DIFFRACTION

39. Diffraction by a Very Narrow Slit40. The Resolving Power of Optical Instruments; 41. The Prism. Basic Theory of Resolving Power; 42. The Telescope and the Eye. Michelson's Measurements of the Sizes of Fixed Stars; 43. The Microscope; 44. On Young's Interpretation of Diffraction; 45. Diffraction Near FoCal Points; 46. The Huygens' Principle of the Electromagnetic Vector Problem; 47. Cerenkov Radiation; 48. Supplement on Geometrical Optics, Curved Light Rays, Sine Condition, Lens Formulae, Rainbow; 49. On the Nature of White Light. Photon Theory and Complementarity; Problems for Chapter I

Problems for Chapter III

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