Here are subject handouts in pdf format that I've created over the years for optics courses I taught. The files for each subject are listed in the order the topics occur in the course. Feel free to download the files, share them with your friends, use them for any non-commercial purposes you'd like. Just don't do anything to rob me of the glory I deserve for creating them. And let me know if there's anything you find useful or fun. You'll need Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to read the pdf files.
Geometric Optics
- Rectilinear Propagation
- Refraction by Plane Surfaces
- Refraction by Spherical Surfaces
- Step-Along Method
- Thin Lenses
- Mirrors
- Spherocylinder Lenses
- Thick Lenses and Lens Systems
- Apertures
- Aberrations
- Optical Instruments
Ophthalmic Optics
- Ophthalmic Prisms
- Toric Lenses
- Lens Effectivity
- Spectacle Magnification
- Bifocals
- Tinted Lenses
- Ghost Images
- Lens Materials
- Lens Design
- Standards
- Contact Lenses
- Low Vision Devices
Recorder with Musical Glasses Obligato, optical solutions for older musicians
Ocular Refraction
- Rudiments of Refraction, basic facts about determining spectacle prescription for optometry students or laymen
- Epidemiology of Refractive Error
- Refractive Techniques
- Aphakia
- Binocular Testing
- Aniseikonia
Photometry
- Radiant and Luminous Flux and Flux Problems
- Illuminance and Illuminance Problems
- Solid Angle and Solid Angle Problems
- Point Light Sources and Luminous Intensity and Intensity Problems
- Luminance and Luminance Problems
- Luminous Exitance and Exitance Problems
- Luminous
Reflectance and
Transmittance and Reflectance and Transmittance Problems - Photometry of Images and Image Photometry Problems
- Image Photometry in General Optical Systems and Image Photometry in General Optical Sysems Problems
- Colorimetry, and Colorimetry Problems
Physical Optics
- Waves and Waves Problems
- Electromagnetic Waves and Electromagnetic Waves Problems
- Coherence and Coherence Problems
- Thin Films and Thin Films Problems
- Slit Interference and Diffraction and Slit Interference and Diffraction Problems
- Diffraction by Circular Apertures, Resolution, and Visual Acuity and Diffraction by Circular Apertures Problems
- Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Problems
- Lasers and Laser Problems