Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics
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MIT 2.71 and 2.710 Optics, Spring 2014 by Nicholas X. Fang Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics by
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Online text: ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-71-optics-spring-2014/d558a4fabb2cc2eee8f864d3928b31f6_MIT2_71S14_lec2_notes.pdf
The notes also use a nondispersive travel-time interpretation; this enrichment limits that interpretation explicitly rather than applying it to arbitrary dispersive media.
Cited passages: Nick Fang, Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, page 4, equation 1: optical path integral.
Cited passages: Nick Fang, MIT Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, 2014, introduction and §H; Nick Fang, MIT Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, 2014, §J: Composite lenses; Nick Fang, MIT Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, §H: Magnification; Nick Fang, MIT Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, §J: Composite lenses; Nick Fang, MIT Lecture Notes on Geometrical Optics, §§E–G; Nick Fang, MIT: Geometrical optics; Nick Fang, MIT: Geometrical optics, pages 1-3.
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