Re: [Phys-l] lens combinations

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Yup;  you are.

I was planning to offer to scan or photo.  my reference for you and, lo and behold, found one of the authors offers it free:

http://spie.org/etop/1991/389_1.pdf

Very similar to "my" text (Nussbaum and Phillips, Contemp. Optics for Scis. and Engs.

bc

p.s. aspheric mirror fortran program included; spherical not (too easy?)

And also, inter alia,

http://scitation.aip.org.oca.ucsc.edu/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=AJPIAS000047000004000351000001&idtype=cvips

[AJP 47 351 (1979)]  Same author (Advanced geometric optics on a programmable pocket calculator)

All this is a bit old, i.e. 1977.  

Your copy:

9780131701830: Contemporary Optics for Scientists and Engineers - AbeBooks - Nussbaum, Allen;Phillips, Richard A.: 0131701835


The AJP review of the book:

http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=AJPIAS000045000010001012000001&idtype=cvips&prog=normal


On 2010, May 27, , at 10:20, Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> Bernard wrote:
> > Note the matrix method is not limited to the paraxial approximation, as 
> > claimed by the wiki page above.
>
> Am I missing something?
> For a refraction, the matrix method generates linear equations as a 
> paraxial approximation of the application of Snell's law.
> Please instruct me if I am mistaken.
>
> Bob Sciamanda
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
> treborsci@verizon.net
> http://mysite.verizon.net/res12merh