Optics

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Virtual images
Curved mirrors
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Lenses
Introduction
Refraction at a spherical interface
A lens
Locating the image
The lensmakers equation
Converging and diverging lenses
Optical instruments using lenses
Single-lens systems
A magnifying glass
Compound optical systems
The refracting telescope
Interference and diraction

Wave phenomena
Huygens Principle
Introduction
Interference
Diraction
Summary of formulas in this chapter

Optics

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Small angle approximation

Light

Small angle approximation

Nature of light

Derivations for the Module 7 exam

Waves
Derivations for the Module 7 exam
Evidence for wave properties of light
Evidence for light as a stream of particles X-ray optics
Features of a wave

Authors

Propagation of light

3 External Resources

Fermats Principle
Refraction

Diractive optics papers and patents.

Total internal reection

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