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Optics and the Eye 1 - OPTM1105
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 8
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

Note: School approval must be granted to enrol in this course.
Contact the School of Optometry and Vision Science
Email: optometry@unsw.edu.au
Phone: 02 9385 4639
Fax: 02 9313 6243

Objectives: Understanding of physical and geometrical optics, the eye and ametropia, the measurment of optical radiation preliminary to ocular hazard assessment, colour measurement and specification and lighting design.

Brief Curriculum: Geometrical optics; rectilinear propagation of light, reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces, prisms, thin lenses, simple magnifiers, compound magnifiers, stops, pupils and windows.
Physical optics: Wave nature of light, superposition of waves, interference, diffraction, polarisation. The eye and ametropia: Models of the eye, spherical refractive errors of the eye and their correction with lenses. Measurment of light and colour: Sources of optical radiation, sunlight and daylight, detectors, the eye as a detector, principles and practise of photometry, principles and practise of colour measurment and specification, uniform colour scales, colour rendering, metamerism, colour atlases and order systems.

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