About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 138. Chapters: Polarization, Optics, Black body, Beer-Lambert law, Stimulated emission, Electromagnetic pulse, Albedo, Spontaneous emission, Transmission medium, Aberration of light, Wave impedance, Poynting vector, Electromagnetic environment, Propagation constant, Coherence length, Coherence time, Atmospheric duct, Cyclotron radiation, Synchrotron radiation, Electronic imager, Incandescence, Operation Fishbowl, Split-ring resonator, Directed-energy weapon, Thermal radiation, Microwave transmission, Absorption spectroscopy, Electromagnetic wave equation, Variable speed of light, Radiative transfer equation and diffusion theory for photon transport in biological tissue, Spectral flux density, Cloak of invisibility, Magnetic core, Anechoic chamber, Nonlinear metamaterials, Emission spectrum, Mathematical descriptions of opacity, Larmor formula, Electromagnetic reverberation chamber, Abraham-Lorentz force, Lienard-Wiechert potential, Sea ice emissivity modelling, Infrared sensing in snakes, Radiant energy, Electromagnetic shielding, Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions of the electromagnetic wave equation, Transverse mode, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation, Non-ionizing radiation, Effective temperature, Penetration depth, Appleton-Hartree equation, Ferrite bead, Thinned-array curse, Bond albedo, Helicon, Actinism, Draper point, Hohlraum, Radioflash, MODTRAN, Free streaming, Unguided transmission media, Equivalence of Direct Radiation, Self-amplified stimulated emission, Forward scattering alignment, Back scattering alignment, Creeping wave, Absorption edge, Bi-hemispherical reflectance, Directional-hemispherical reflectance, Planck radiation. Excerpt: Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Op...
