ISBN : 9782924651421
Year of publication : 2017
Nombre de pages : 357
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
This book, adapted to the learning of physics in Visual Orthotics Techniques, provides students with the basic concepts of geometrical optics. After establishing the main principles of light (the laws of reflection and refraction), the concepts of geometrical optics are first applied to the plane mirror, the simplest optical system. Then, more complex optical systems (the spherical mirror, the plane diopter, the parallel-sided plate, the prism, the spherical diopter, the thin lens and lens combinations) are analyzed in detail. The subjects are presented in such a way that the optical system studied has a slightly greater degree of complexity than the previous one. By the end of their study of geometrical optics with this manual, students will be able to model the eye optically and understand the fundamentals of ametropia correction (myopia and hyperopia).
A prescription optician is regularly called upon to make connections between a patient's visual needs, the prescriptions of optometrists, the optical instruments he or she uses and the visual orthotics he or she develops. It is therefore important for the optician to have a knowledge of the main principles that describe the behavior of light, in order to understand the effect of different optical systems on the path of light rays. With this book, readers with a basic knowledge of mathematics (elementary algebra, plane geometry and trigonometry) have a great opportunity to explore a field of physics as fascinating as it is exciting: optics.
Alexandre April completed a bachelor's degree in engineering physics, as well as a master's and doctorate in physics (specializing in photonic optics) at Université Laval in Quebec City. His research focused on the spectroscopy and modeling of highly focused ultrashort laser pulses, leading to the publication of several scientific papers. Since 2010, he has been a professor in the physics department at Cégep Garneau, where he teaches the three general education physics courses in Natural Sciences, as well as being involved in the Visual Orthotics Techniques program. In 2013 and 2014, he co-authored 24 physics synthesis problems, which were published in the Physique de René Lafrance book series, published by La Chenelière Éducation. In 2015, he contributed to the development of 10 problem-based approaches (PBAs), available free of charge on the website of the Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (CCDMD), aimed at college-level science students. In 2016 and 2017, he sat on the review committee for Cégep Garneau's Visual Orthotics Techniques program.
