summarizes equations used in optics, including geometric optics, physical optics, radiometry, diffraction, and interferometry. There are different forms of the...

, then equation (2) becomes (1). Eikonal equations naturally arise in the WKB method and the study of Maxwell's equations. Eikonal equations provide...

differential equations, manifolds, Lie groups, and ergodic theory. This article gives a summary of the most important of these. This article lists equations from...

Hypergeometric differential equation Jimbo–Miwa–Ueno isomonodromy equations Painlevé equations Picard–Fuchs equation to describe the periods of elliptic curves Schlesinger's...

Defining equation (physical chemistry) Fresnel equations List of equations in classical mechanics List of equations in fluid mechanics List of equations in...

The convection–diffusion equation is a combination of the diffusion and convection (advection) equations, and describes physical phenomena where particles...

Fresnel Fresnel equations Fresnel lens Fresnel number Fresnel reflection Fresnel zone gain-switching Gaussian beam gegenschein geometrical optics Glan–Foucault...

Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density...

generally, the NLSE appears as one of universal equations that describe the evolution of slowly varying packets of quasi-monochromatic waves in weakly...

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...

behind optical waveguides can be described using the concepts of geometrical or ray optics, as illustrated in the diagram. Light passing into a medium with...

development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world. The word optics is derived from the Greek term τα ὀπτικά meaning 'appearance, look'. Optics was significantly...

See also Nonlinear partial differential equation, List of partial differential equation topics and List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations....

of Quality". Ghosh, Gorachand (1997). "Sellmeier Coefficients and Dispersion of Thermo-Optic coefficients for some optical glasses". Applied Optics....

Principles of Optics, colloquially known as Born and Wolf, is an optics textbook written by Max Born and Emil Wolf that was initially published in 1959...

instead of nonrelativistic energy equations. The Klein–Gordon equation and the Dirac equation are two such equations. The Klein–Gordon equation, − 1 c...

Examples of nonlinear differential equations are the Navier–Stokes equations in fluid dynamics and the Lotka–Volterra equations in biology. One of the greatest...

transformation optics is similar to the equations that describe how gravity warps space and time, in general relativity. However, instead of space and time...

Eugene (2017). "Thin-Lens Equations". Optics (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-09693-3. Nave, Carl R. "Thin Lens Equation". Hyperphysics. Georgia State...

geometrical optics, by applying variational principles to rays of light in a medium, and solving the EL equations gives the equations of the paths the...

This is a list of named linear ordinary differential equations. List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations List of nonlinear partial differential...

version (see Maxwell–Faraday equation below) is the form recognized today in the group of equations known as Maxwell's equations. Lenz's law, formulated by...

{\displaystyle F^{\tau \sigma }} is electromagnetic field-strength tensor. Using equations of motion, m d u τ d s = e F τ σ u σ , {\displaystyle m{\frac {du^{\tau...

equation and Lindblad equation are examples of approximate quantum master equations assumed to be Markovian. More accurate quantum master equations for...

transformation optics developed from the capability to choose the parameters for a given material. Hence, since Maxwell's equations retain the same form...

surface. This is a consequence of the fact that the wave equation in optics is second order in the time. The wave equation of quantum mechanics is first order...

of Maxwell's equations in linear dispersive media with absorption for scattering and propagation of femtosecond electromagnetic pulses" (PDF). Optics...

array of points and enforces Maxwell’s equations at each point. FDFD puts this large set of equations into a matrix and solves all the equations simultaneously...

twenty equations together into a set of only four, via vector notation. This group of four equations was known variously as the Hertz–Heaviside equations and...

than integrability of the field equations. The constraints arise almost always because the differential equations must obey a set of boundary conditions...