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Re: A reflection on teaching (optics)

At 12:37 6/29/00 -0700, Leigh wrote:
... In an introductory course for
physical science students I will indicate how spherical
aberration arises when the approximation is removed, but not
any of the other third order aberrations....

I was a relatively innocent visitor to Hurstmonceaux Castle.
An observatory instrumentation specialist showed me a
a dramatic shot of a comet, as taken with one of their
telescopes in the Canaries? He quickly corrected the
sleight of hand though - it was a classical coma, he explained.



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
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