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Re: A reflection on teaching (optics)



The Pedrotti brothers book!

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leigh Palmer" <palmer@SFU.CA>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: A reflection on teaching (optics)


. . . I have also used a
textbook at some time which derived the form of the aplanatic
refracting interface (Cartesian ovoid?) starting from Fermat's
principle rather than Snell's law. It was an introductory
course, too. Does anyone know what that textbook was?