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Sunday, 11 December 2016

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS - BASIC CONCEPTS

INTRODUCTION: What is light? Light is the energy emitted by the excited atoms which can cause the sensation of vision in a human eye, hence light is a form of radiant energy. What is optics? The branch of physics which deals with the phenomena concerning light is called optics . We can classify the optics into : 1) Geometrical optics 2) Physical optics. What is Geometrical optics? The study involves, the light is considered as moving along a straight line as moving along straight line as a ray. A ray of light gives the direction of light....