Physics - Physical Optics Updates

2018 June 5

Chapter 4: Page 7: Paragraph 2: Line 1: “polarity” corrected to “chirality”.
Chapter 4: Page 7: Paragraph 2: Line 4: “clockwise” changed to “counterclockwise”.
Chapter 4: Page 7: Equation 9: Right hand side corrected to 2F_C - F.
Chapter 4: Page 7: At bottom of page a sentence added about the precision of the determination of the eccentricity.
Chapter 4: Appendix: Page 14: Line 2: Spelling of “polariazation” corrected.
Chapter 4: Appendix: Page 20: Equation label (A!2) corrected to (A12).
Chapter 4: Appendix: Page 21: Reference to figure 11 changed to figure A5.

2017 August 16

Chapter on Reflection and Refraction: In text, line below equation for t, subscripts on two symbols changed.

2016 August 9

Some small changes. 2016 June 21

Chapter 4: Page 12: Last full paragraph: Misspellings of “imagine” and “particular” corrected.

2015 December 22

Chapter 4: Page 2: An additional paragraph inserted about the sign convention for chirality.

2015 September 3

2014 August 7

Chapter 4: Page 1: Paragraph 4: Line 7: Misspelling "diection" changed to "direction".

2013 October 22