OPTOMETRIST'S MANUAL
CONTENTS SECTION I IMPORTANT LAWS OF OPTICS AND THEIR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 1 METRIC SYSTEM 3 CHAPTER 2 BASIC OPTICAL MATH 7 CHAPTER 3 LIGHT LASERS POLARIZATION INTERFERENCE AND FLUORESCENCE 23 CHAPTER 4 SPEED OF LIGHT AND REFRACTIVE INDEX 31 CHAPTER 5 SNELL S LAW 37 CHAPTER 6 CRITICAL ANGLE 43 CHAPTER 7 TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION 47 CHAPTER 8 TYPES OF LENSES 51 CHAPTER 9 REFLECTION AND MIRRORS 59 SECTION II IMPORTANT FORMULAE AND CONSTANTS IN OPTICS AND THEIR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS CHAPTER 10 POWER OF LENSES 67 CHAPTER 11 VERGENCE EQUATION 73 CHAPTER 12 MULTIPLE LENS SYSTEMS 81 CHAPTER 13 MAGNIFICATION BY LENSES 85 CHAPTER 14 PRISMS AND DISPERSION 91 CHAPTER 15 POWER OF MIRRORS 101 1 65 CHAPTER 16 SPHERICAL LENSES 105 CHAPTER 17 CYLINDRICAL LENSES 109 CHAPTER 18 SPHEROCYLINDRICAL LENSES 113 CHAPTER 19 OPTICAL CROSS 117 CHAPTER 20 CONOID OF STURM 127 CHAPTER 21 OPTICAL SYSTEM OF THE HUMAN EYE 135 CHAPTER 22 REFRACTING POWER OF A CURVED SURFACE 139 CHAPTER 23 ACCOMMODATION 151 SECTION I IMPORTANT LAWS OF OPTICS AND THEIR CLINICAL APPLICATIONS PREFIXES VALUES AND UNITS OF MEASUREMENT THE SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENTS IN OPHTHALMIC AND OTHER MEDICAL APPLICATIONS IS THE METRIC SYSTEM WHICH IS SUMMARIZED IN TABLE 1 1 1 METRIC SYSTEM LEARNING OBJECTIVES UPON COMPLETION OF THIS CHAPTER THE READER SHOULD BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE METRIC PREFIXES DESCRIBE UNITS OF MEASUREMENT CALCULATE VARIOUS UNITS OF MEASUREMENT KEY POINTS COMMON UNITS FOR VOLUME LITER L DECILITER DL MILLILITER ML COMMON UNITS FOR WEIGHT KILOGRAM KG GRAM G MILLIGRAM MG COMMON UNITS FOR LENGTH KILOMETER KM METER M CENTIMETER CM MILLIMETER MM