Óptica: Spanish Language Astronomy Materials Education Center

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This third edition serves as an introduction to the advances in optics technology and their importance in our society. There are 708 pages and 13 chapters with easy to follow diagrams and some technical language. This book is helpful to students in a college introductory course in optics. Eugene Hecht introduces students to many of the theories of optics including electromagnetism, photons and light, and the geometry of optics. A typical chapter encompasses derivations of many equations and end of chapter questions and problems. The difficulty level of these problem sets ranges from intermediate to difficult, but their solutions can be found in the back of the book.