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Title: Optics (4th Edition) by Eugene Hecht ISBN: 0-8053-8566-5 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 02 August, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Fundamental Optics Textbook Ever.
Comment: Yes if you only buy one book to learn the fundamentals of optics this is the book you should buy or even borrow. My department adopted it a long time ago and Hecht is a very good writter. The format is great. The book does ask the reader to at least be familure with the concepts of Electromagnetism. According to my professor, the sections concerning Matrix Methods with respect to Len Systems and Jone's Matrices have some notation that is confusing. For a cleaner matrix notation we use Fundamentals of Photonics. The chapters on Geometrical Optics are excellent.
The 4th Edition is a lot more visually appealing than the 3rd edition. But in terms of new material it's not much different. The book has so many diagrams and pictures that it really helps supplement the actual text a lot.
I really reccomend this book for anyone looking for a solid foundation in classical optics.
Rating: 4
Summary: Theres alot in this book
Comment: This book contains nearly everything you could want to know about basic optics. The solved problems are great.
Most of it is well written - I found parts of some chapters confusing (as did my classmates) - however considering the complexity of the material and the amount of material included, Hecht does a great job.
It would also be good to have a list of symbols used in equations at the back of the book like some other texts have. I remember tearing throught the book looking for a definition of a symbol on more than one occasion.
Having not used another book, I can make no comparisions, but according to most people, this is the book to get.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book!
Comment: I used this book in my undergraduate optics class. It was mostly self-taught and we met to ask questions and turn in homework. I found this book challenging but not impossible. The text is very well written and the end of chapter problems didn't require a Ph.D. to solve. I learned the most from any of my classes from this book (partly due to the teaching style of the professor). I highly recommend it if you want to learn optics.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Optics by Eugene Hecht ISBN: 0070277303 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 November, 1974 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Modern Optics by Grant R. Fowles ISBN: 0486659577 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light (7th Edition) by Max Born, Emil Wolf ISBN: 0521642221 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: Modern Optical Engineering by Warren J. Smith ISBN: 0071363602 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 26 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) by David J. Griffiths ISBN: 013805326X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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