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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 | |