OPTICS BY AJOY GHATAK

OPTICS

Seventh Edition

Ajoy Ghatak

Meghnad Saha Professor The National Academy of Sciences India (Former Professor of Physics at IIT Delhi)

Mc Graw Hill

McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited

OPTICS by Professor Ghatak is a classic text designed to provide a comprehensive account of important topics in this exciting field. The book aims to meet the requirements of courses on Optics for undergraduate students of Science and Engineering. This brand new multicolour edition comes with a number of careful revisions in the text and colourful illustrations, thus making it even more exciting and reader-friendly.

Salient Features

• Prologue detailing importance of study of light even after the advent of lasers A new chapter on Bohr Atom and Line Spectra of Atoms with applications of spectroscopy

• Comprehensive coverage of important topics like Geometrical Optics, Vibrations & Waves, Polarization,

Interference, Diffraction, Lasers and Holography

• Updated content on Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Anisotropic Media, Fiber Optics and Lasers • Comprehensive simple derivation of the famous equation E = mc² and Special Theory of Relativity

Quantum Theory including the EPR Paradox & Entanglement