summarizes equations used in optics, including geometric optics, physical optics, radiometry, diffraction, and interferometry. There are different forms of the...
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, then equation (2) becomes (1). Eikonal equations naturally arise in the WKB method and the study of Maxwell's equations. Eikonal equations provide...
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differential equations, manifolds, Lie groups, and ergodic theory. This article gives a summary of the most important of these. This article lists equations from...
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Hypergeometric differential equation Jimbo–Miwa–Ueno isomonodromy equations Painlevé equations Picard–Fuchs equation to describe the periods of elliptic curves Schlesinger's...
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Defining equation (physical chemistry) Fresnel equations List of equations in classical mechanics List of equations in fluid mechanics List of equations in...
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The convection–diffusion equation is a combination of the diffusion and convection (advection) equations, and describes physical phenomena where particles...
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Fresnel Fresnel equations Fresnel lens Fresnel number Fresnel reflection Fresnel zone gain-switching Gaussian beam gegenschein geometrical optics Glan–Foucault...
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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...
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generally, the NLSE appears as one of universal equations that describe the evolution of slowly varying packets of quasi-monochromatic waves in weakly...
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Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments...
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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...
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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...
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See also Nonlinear partial differential equation, List of partial differential equation topics and List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations....
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of Quality". Ghosh, Gorachand (1997). "Sellmeier Coefficients and Dispersion of Thermo-Optic coefficients for some optical glasses". Applied Optics....
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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...
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instead of nonrelativistic energy equations. The Klein–Gordon equation and the Dirac equation are two such equations. The Klein–Gordon equation, − 1 c...
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Nonlinear system (redirect from Nonlinear system of equations)
Examples of nonlinear differential equations are the Navier–Stokes equations in fluid dynamics and the Lotka–Volterra equations in biology. One of the greatest...
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transformation optics is similar to the equations that describe how gravity warps space and time, in general relativity. However, instead of space and time...
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Lens (redirect from Meniscus (optics))
Eugene (2017). "Thin-Lens Equations". Optics (5th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-1-292-09693-3. Nave, Carl R. "Thin Lens Equation". Hyperphysics. Georgia State...
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Lagrangian mechanics (redirect from Lagrangian equations of motion)
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...
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This is a list of named linear ordinary differential equations. List of nonlinear ordinary differential equations List of nonlinear partial differential...
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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...
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Larmor precession (redirect from Larmor equation)
{\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...
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equation and Lindblad equation are examples of approximate quantum master equations assumed to be Markovian. More accurate quantum master equations for...
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Metamaterial cloaking (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
transformation optics developed from the capability to choose the parameters for a given material. Hence, since Maxwell's equations retain the same form...
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Huygens–Fresnel principle (redirect from Huygens–Fresnel equation)
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...
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Finite-difference time-domain method (redirect from Method of Yee)
of Maxwell's equations in linear dispersive media with absorption for scattering and propagation of femtosecond electromagnetic pulses" (PDF). Optics...
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Computational electromagnetics (category Partial differential equations)
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...
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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...
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Soliton (category Partial differential equations)
than integrability of the field equations. The constraints arise almost always because the differential equations must obey a set of boundary conditions...
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