Description:
A highly visual, clinically oriented text covering the key topics in geometrical and visual optics essential to optometric practice. Features over 300 illustrations and examples, as well as numerous worked-out problems, all designed to demystify clinical optics.
Contents:
1.- Basic Terms and Concepts. 2.- Refraction at Spherical Surfaces. 3.- The Vergence Relationship. 4.- Thin Lenses. 5.- Optical Systems with Multiple Surfaces. 6.- Equivalent Lenses. 7.- Schematic Eyes and Ametropia. 8.- Accommodation. 9.- Cylindrical Lenses and the Correction of Astigmatism. 10.- Prisms. 11.- Depth of Field. 12.- Magnifying Devices. 13.- Retinal Image Size. 14.- Reflection. 15.- Aberrations. Answers to Self-Assessment Problems. Index.