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Chapter 15 deals with geometric optics. Problems are solved under internal reflection in slabs and prisms, fibre optics, matrix methods, Fraunhofer diffraction by single slit, double slit and grating, missing orders, resolving power, Rayleigh’s criterion, interference, colours in thin films, Newton’s rings, polarization, Malu’s law and Brewster’s law.
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Kamal, A.A. (2011). Optics. In: 1000 Solved Problems in Classical Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11943-9_15
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