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In this section:

The Optics Book

1. Before Optics
2. Light and Illumination
3. Reflection and refraction
4. Geometrical Optics and thin lenses
5. The human eye
6. Optics instruments

Movie Projector
photocopy machine
magnifying glass
Microscope
Telescope
Photographic Camera
Periscope
Corrective Lens
7. Scattering & spectrum
8. Color
9. Interferences & difraction
10. Polarization
11. Quantic Optics

Optics Instruments

            Now, no one really cares about figurines in mirrors outside of a physics class or a physics textbook.  But actually, lenses do have practical uses in every day life.  Every time you go to a movie theater to see a movie, every time you go to photocopy something, lenses are being used. Much of the Optical instruments are applications of the lenses, please keep in mind the following keys in order to understand the graphics after this page.

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Credits: Karen Wu

Some of the Optics Instruments are:

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