Product Description

Emphasizes conceptual understanding and development of optical intuition

Uses the vergence-dioptric power-wavefront approach

Incorporates fun everyday aspects of optics

Helpful review for optometry boards and qualifying examinations

With nearly 30 years of experience in teaching optics, Dr. Keating offers a new edition of this reader friendly book to enhance your understanding of geometric, physical and visual optics.

Written primarily for optometry students, the core of basic optics, including thin lenses, ametropia corrections, accommodation, introductory astigmatism and refraction techniques, prisms, and prisms in lenses, are conveniently contained in the first 12 chapters. Many students need percolation time to absorb some of the abstract concepts in optics. Dr. Keating introduces some concepts in early chapters and then returns to a more advanced treatment in later chapters providing you with adequate time to absorb difficult concepts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #465803 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 613 pages

Review
"keating provides an excellent text for the optometry student and practitioners. Very straightforward and accessible."

From the Publisher
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.

About the Author
Michael P. Keating, PhD, is Professor, Michigan College of Optometry, Ferris State University, Big Rapids

Customer Reviews

Good book for non-medical background study
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.

Like A Low Budget Physics Book
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.

Different from other texts
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!