Category: Optics

The distance between the object and the pole of the mirror is called Object distance(u). The distance between the image and the pole of the mirror is called Image distance(v). The distance between the Principal focus and the pole of the mirror is called Focal Length(f)

Optical Theory refers to the historical scientific endeavor to explain optical processes in mechanical terms, involving the propagation of waves in elastic media and the resolution of transverse and longitudinal waves at boundaries, as explored by various scientists like Poisson, Green, Mac Cullagh, and Neumann in the …

Practical applications of optics are found in a variety of technologies and everyday objects, including mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, lasers, and fibre optics

Visible electromagnetic radiation. Of the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the human eye is sensitive to only a tiny part, the part that is called light. The wavelengths of visible light range from about 350 or 400 nm to about 750 or 800 nm. The study of light and of instruments using ligh

Ibn al-Haytham Finally, Ibn al-Haytham left his impact on many scientific disciplines through his genius insight, and novel and original observations. Without doubt, he is considered as the pioneering father of modern optics.

The word optics is derived from the Greek term τα ὀπτικά meaning ‘appearance, look’. Optics was significantly reformed by the developments in the medieval Islamic world, such as the beginnings of physical and physiological optics, and then significantly advanced in early modern Europe, where diffractive optics began

Types of Optics

Optics is the branch of physics which is concerned with light and it’s behavioural pattern and properties. Optics is a branch of physics that deals with the determination of behaviour and the properties of light, along with its interactions with the matter and also with the instruments which are used to detect it.