Physics & Astronomy

Accurate, authoritative, and comprehensive, Optics, Fourth Edition has been revised to provide students with the most up-to-date coverage of optics. The market leader for over a decade, this text provides a balance of theory and instrumentation, while also including the necessary classical background. The writing style is lively and accessible.

• NEW AND UPDATED! New illustrations and photos, as well as revised art, are included throughout enhancing the already outstanding visual pedagogy of this textbook.

• UPDATED! Chapter 3 Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light has been fully revised and updated to reflect advances in the field.

• REVISED! The instructor's solution manual now includes all of the answers that are not in the back of the book and has a new and improved design.

• The text employs a careful balance of theory and instrumentation and provides students with the necessary classical background.

• Coherence is introduced early on in the text and leads immediately into a discussion of Young's Experiments. To underscore the quantum mechanical nature of interference, many optical interference photos are accompanied by equivalent material particle fringe patterns.

• Complete solutions to many problems are included at the back of the text providing an invaluable study aide for students.

1. A Brief History.


2. Wave Motion.


UPDATED! 3. Electromagnetic Theory, Photons, and Light.


4. The Propagation of Light.


5. Geometrical Optics.


6. More on Geometrical Optics.


7. The Superposition of Waves. 


8. Polarization.


9. Interference.


10. Diffraction.


11. Fourier Optics.


12. Basics of Coherence Theory.


13. Modern Optics: Lasers and Other Topics.

Optics  (Physics & Astronomy)

Instructor's Solutions Manual, 4/E
Hecht
©2002 | Addison-Wesley | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805385789 | ISBN-13: 9780805385786

Clickers in the Astronomy Classroom
Duncan
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805396160 | ISBN-13: 9780805396164

Clickers in the Classroom
Duncan
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 96 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805387285 | ISBN-13: 9780805387285
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Cosmos DVD Boxed Set
Sagan
©2000 | Addison-Wesley | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 080538572X | ISBN-13: 9780805385724

CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321491874 | ISBN-13: 9780321491879

CourseCompass Instructor Quick Start Guide (V4.2.1), 4/E
AWBC
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 032132126X | ISBN-13: 9780321321268

Edmund Scientific Star and Planet Locator
Edmund Scientific
©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 1 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131402358 | ISBN-13: 9780131402355

Interwrite Personal Response System
EduCue, Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2004 | Addison-Wesley | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321267354 | ISBN-13: 9780321267351

MasteringAstronomy™ Student Access Kit
Addison-Wesley
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321582187 | ISBN-13: 9780321582188
URL:  http://www.masteringastronomy.com
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MasteringAstronomy™ Student Access Kit for Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321582195 | ISBN-13: 9780321582195
URL:  http://www.masteringastronomy.com
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Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
Addison-Wesley
©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
ISBN-10: 0201721708 | ISBN-13: 9780201721706
URL:  http://www.aw-bc.com/tutorcenter
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