Optics
Optics is the science of light and how it interacts with the world. Optics explains how rainbows exist, how light reflects off mirrors, how light refracts through glass or water, and what splits light shining through a prism. In addition to visible light in the standard "spectrum" of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, optics also deals with invisible parts of the whole electromagnetic spectrum of which visible light is only a small part.
Optics is both a science and an area of engineering. It has been used to make many useful things, including eyeglasses, cameras, telescopes, and microscopes. Many of these things are based on lenses, which focus light and can make images of things that are bigger or smaller than the original.
While optics is an old science, new things are still being discovered in it. Scientists have learned how to make light travel through a thin optical fiber made of glass or plastic. Light can go long distances in a fiber. Fibers are used to carry phone calls and the Internet through cities and around the world.
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Scientists of the V.I. VernadskyCrimean Federal University (KFU) have found a way to accurately detect fungal skin diseases with the help of Luminescent diagnosis: illumination of affected skin areas with UV lamp.
Photo of the Nimrud lens in the british museum
Reproduction of a page of Ibn Sahl's manuscript showing his knowledge of the law of refraction
The first treatise about optics by Johannes Kepler, Ad Vitellionem paralipomena quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur (1604)
Cover of the first edition of Newton's Opticks (1704)
Board with optical devices, 1728 Cyclopaedia
Geometry of reflection and refraction of light rays
Diagram of specular reflection
Illustration of Snell's Law for the case n1 < n2, such as air/water interface
A ray tracing diagram for a converging lens
