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Optik, Thermodynamik, Quanten
De Gruyter 1998; US$ 126.00Physik: Optik, Thermodynamik, Quanten (German Edition) more...
The Physics of Invisibility
Springer 2011; US$ 23.99The ability is see is fundamental to our very existence. How true our perceptions really are depends upon many factors, and not least is our understanding of what light is and how it interacts with matter. It was said that the camera, the icon of light recording instruments, never lies, and in the day of the glass plate and celluloid roll-film this... more...
Patterns of Light
Springer 2007; US$ 64.99Begins by addressing properties of light as seen in the everyday world: events such as refraction in a pool, lenses in the form of glasses, the colors of objects, atmospheric events, and more. This title includes chapters that explain these events at the atomic and subatomic level. more...
Edexcel A2 Physics Student Unit Guide: Unit 5 Physics from Creation to Collapse
Hodder Education 2013; US$ 15.98Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers. Each full-colour New Edition Student Unit Guide provides ideal preparation for your unit exam:.; Feel confident you understand the unit: each guide comprehensively covers the unit content and includes topic summaries,... more...
Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On Seeing the Stars)
BRILL 2006; US$ 144.00A translation of "On Seeing the Stars", Nicole Oresme's 14th-century treatise on atmospheric refraction, in which Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve the problem of astronomy, while proposing that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere. more...
Light Years
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 17.00The fully updated 2nd edition of this critically acclaimed book covers the exciting developments in light science of the past five years. Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it. more...
Light Years
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 16.99This is the story of the greatest puzzle in our universe: what is light? Light Years is an engaging survey of everything we know of the universe's most enigmatic phenomenon and the remarkable people who have been captivated by it. Light Years looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory--Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday,... more...
Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers
Wiley 2011; US$ 150.00A comprehensive introduction to the burgeoning field of photonics The field of photonics is finding increasing applications across a broad range of industries. While many other books provide an overview of the subject, Fundamentals of Light Sources and Lasers closes a clear gap in the current literature by concentrating on the principles of laser operation... more...
A History of Optics from Greek Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 59.99This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It shows how light gradually became the central entity of a domain of physics that no longer referred to the functioning of the eye; it retraces the subsequent competition between medium-based and corpuscular... more...









