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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments for the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments for the First Edition | |
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| Light and Color | |
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| Some Fundamentals: Color, Light, and Interactions | |
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| Color | |
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| Early Views of Color | |
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| The Spectrum and "Colored" Light | |
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| Elementary Color Mixing | |
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| Chromaticity and Additive Color Mixing | |
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| Colored Objects and Subtractive Color Mixing | |
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| Color Order Systems | |
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| Color Perception | |
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| The Nature of Light | |
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| Light and Energy | |
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| Interactions of Light with Bulk Matter | |
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| Interactions of Light with Molecules, Atoms, and Electrons | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Involving Vibrations and Simple Excitations | |
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| Color Produced by Incandescence | |
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| Incandescence | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| Incandescent Light Sources | |
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| Pyrotechnics | |
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| Cerenkov Radiation | |
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| Nature of Incandescent Light | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color produced by Gas Excitations | |
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| Quanta and Excitations | |
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| Flame Colorations | |
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| Neon Signs | |
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| Vapor Discharge Lamps | |
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| Fraunhofer Lines, Red Shifts, Resonance, and Fluorescence | |
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| Arcs, Lightning, and Coronas | |
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| Auroras | |
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| Gas Lasers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Produced by Vibrations and Rotations | |
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| Combination Electronic-Vibration-Rotation Colors | |
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| Fluorescence and Phosphorescence | |
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| Vibrations in Water and Ice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Involving Ligand Field Effects | |
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| Color Caused by Transition Metals in a Ligand Field | |
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| Ionic and Covalent Bonding | |
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| Bonding in Corundum | |
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| Chromium and the Color of Ruby | |
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| Luminescence and Pleochroism in Ruby | |
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| Chromium in Emerald | |
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| Alexandrite Effect | |
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| Usambara Effect in Tourmaline | |
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| Some Ligand Field Considerations | |
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| Idiochromatic Transition Metal Colors | |
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| Allochromatic Transition Metal Colors | |
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| Ruby and Neodymium Lasers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Involving Molecular Orbitals | |
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| Color in Organic Molecules | |
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| Early Views of Organic Color | |
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| Molecular Orbitals of Formaldehyde | |
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| Polyene Colorants | |
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| Green Colorants | |
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| Donor-Acceptor Colorants | |
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| Usambara Effect in Plastics | |
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| Fluorescence, Phosphorescence, and Organic Dye Lasers | |
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| Organic Light-Emitting Diodes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Charge Transfer Color | |
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| Blue Sapphire | |
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| Intervalence Charge Transfer | |
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| Other Types of Charge Transfer | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Involving Band Theory | |
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| Color in Metals and Semiconductors | |
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| Band Theory | |
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| Color of Metals and Alloys | |
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| Transparent Metals | |
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| Other Substances with a Metal-Like Appearance | |
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| Pure Insulator and Semiconductor Colors | |
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| Semiconductor Color Caused by Impurities | |
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| LEDs and Semiconductor Lasers | |
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| Quantum Confinement in Semiconductors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Centers | |
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| F Centers | |
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| Smoky Quartz and Amethyst | |
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| Electron and Hole Centers | |
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| Irradiation Sources | |
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| Specific Color Centers | |
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| Color Center-Like Color Changes | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color Involving Geometrical and Physical Optics | |
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| Dispersive Refraction and Polarization | |
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| Dispersive Refraction | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Anomalous Dispersion | |
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| Dispersion-Produced Color | |
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| Double Refraction and Polarized Light | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Scattering and Nonlinear Effects | |
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| Rayleigh and Mie Scattering | |
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| Scattering-Produced Color | |
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| Nonlinear Effects | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Interference and Diffraction | |
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| Interference of Two Beams | |
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| Interference in a Thin Film | |
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| Interferometers and Interference Filters | |
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| Other Occurrences of Interference Not Involving Diffraction | |
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| Diffraction | |
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| Diffraction Gratings | |
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| Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Layer Gratings | |
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| Summary | |
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| Problems | |
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| Color-Related Topics | |
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| Colorants of Many Types | |
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| Colorants | |
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| Pigments | |
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| Pigment Incompatibilities and Paint Deterioration | |
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| Dyes, Dyeing, and Staining | |
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| Sensitizers and Dyes for Photography | |
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| Bleaching and Fading | |
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| Color in Glass, Glazes, and Enamels | |
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| Color Filters and Mirrors | |
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| Color in Liquid Crystals | |
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| Biological Coloration | |
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| Medical Uses of Light and Color | |
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| Color Changes in Food | |
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| Color Seen in the Atmosphere | |
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| Color in Minerals and Gemstones | |
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| Problems | |
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| Vision, Luminescence, Lasers, and Related Topics | |
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| Human Vision | |
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| Human Color Vision | |
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| Color Vision Defects | |
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| Color Vision in Animals | |
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| Photosynthesis | |
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| Chromogenic Effects | |
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| Photochemistry and Art Preservation | |
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| Light Sources | |
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| Luminescence | |
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| Chemiluminescence and Bioluminescence | |
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| Color Television and Computer Displays | |
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| Digital and Flat-Panel Displays | |
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| Lasers | |
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| Holography | |
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| Problems | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Units, Chromaticity, and Color Order Systems | |
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| Units for Color | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Energy Units and Their Conversions | |
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| Conversion Between eV and nm | |
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| Photometric Units | |
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| Absorption Laws | |
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| Attenuation | |
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| CIE Standard Observer and Tristimulus Values | |
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| Chromaticity | |
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| Color Order Systems | |
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| Advanced Colorimetry | |
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| Color Difference Assessment | |
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| Color-Measuring Instruments | |
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| Color Wheels | |
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| Incandescence Equations | |
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| Atoms and Simple Molecules | |
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| Shells ad Orbitals | |
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| Term Symbols and Selection Rules | |
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| Shapes of Orbitals | |
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| Hydrogen Molecule | |
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| Other Simple Molecules | |
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| Molecular Term Symbols | |
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| Diatomic Molecule Vibrations | |
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| Fluorescence and Phosphorescence | |
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| Two Triatomic Molecules | |
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| Crystal Fields, Ligand Fields, and Molecular Orbitals | |
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| Crystal Field Theory | |
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| Ligand Field Theory and Molecular Orbital Theory | |
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| Orgel Diagrams | |
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| Band Theory | |
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| Free Electron Model | |
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| Fermi Energy | |
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| Nearly Free Electron Model | |
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| Prism, Thin Film, and Layer Diffraction Grating | |
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| Minimum Deviation of a Prism | |
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| Resolving Power of a Prism | |
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| Interference in a Thin Film | |
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| Newton's Colors | |
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| Diffraction from a Layer Grating | |
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| Recommendations for Additional Reading | |
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| Index | |