Geometric optics is a confusing subject for many physics students, who often first encounter the subject in introductory college physics classes. Traditional instruction in geometric optics is not as ...
THE course of optics outlined here is one which has been developed for an advanced class at the postgraduate school of the United States Naval Academy. Some ninety experiments are described, in ...
Recent experiments that demonstrate the negative refraction of light could bring a heated scientific debate to a close, and give negative-index materials a positive future Figure 1: Negative-index ...