作者：(美)约翰·比弗(John Beaver
页数：184
出版社：哈尔滨工业大学出版社
出版日期：2023
ISBN：9787576707717
电子书格式：pdf/epub/txt
内容简介
该书既可视为一部跨界的应用物理学专著，亦可当作一部专为高端的摄影发烧友准备的进阶之作，因为它从基本的东西讲起。
光的本性是什么？这是贯穿于光学发展的根本问题。对此问题的探讨有力地推动了光学乃至整个物理学的发展，人类对光的本性的认识，遵循实验一假设一理论一实验的途径，经历了从光是“物质的微粒”，是“以太的振动”，是“电磁波”到“光具有玻粒二象性”的阶段。从该书的目录中我们可以看到这一历程。
目录
Preface
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Part Ⅰ Some preliminary ideas
1 What is science; what is art?
1.1 The coherence of our experience
1.2 Truth in science
1.2.1 Proving a theory false
1.3 Operational definitions
1.4 Inspiration and perspiration
1.5 Criticism and self esteem
1.6 Looking at art
References
Part Ⅱ The nature of light
2 What light is
2. l The speed of light
2.1.1 The speed of light with a shortwave radio
2.1.2 Relativity and the speed of light
2.2 Geometry
2.3 Waves
2.3.1 Amplitude
2.3.2 Speed, wavelength and frequency
2.3.3 The electromagnetic spectrum
2.4 Particles
Reference
3 What light does
3.1 Reflection, absorption and transmission
3.2 Specular reflection
3.3 Refraction
3.3.l Total internal reflection
3.3.2 Dispersion
3.4 Diffuse reflections
3.5 Scattering
3.5.1 Wavelength-dependent scattering
3.5.2 Wavelength-independent scattering
3.6 Interference
3.7 Diffraction
3.8 Fluorescence
3.9 Polarization
4 Sources of light
4.1 Light and its spectrum
4.2 Thermal radiation
4.3 Non-thermal radiation
Reference
5 Wavelength reconsidered
Part Ⅲ Geometry and two-dimensional design
6 Geometry and the picture plane
6.1 From 3D to 2D
6.2 The human brain’s construction of three-dimensional reality
6.3 Linear perspective and the Camera Obscura
Acknowledgements
Author biography
Part Ⅰ Some preliminary ideas
1 What is science; what is art?
1.1 The coherence of our experience
1.2 Truth in science
1.2.1 Proving a theory false
1.3 Operational definitions
1.4 Inspiration and perspiration
1.5 Criticism and self esteem
1.6 Looking at art
References
Part Ⅱ The nature of light
2 What light is
2. l The speed of light
2.1.1 The speed of light with a shortwave radio
2.1.2 Relativity and the speed of light
2.2 Geometry
2.3 Waves
2.3.1 Amplitude
2.3.2 Speed, wavelength and frequency
2.3.3 The electromagnetic spectrum
2.4 Particles
Reference
3 What light does
3.1 Reflection, absorption and transmission
3.2 Specular reflection
3.3 Refraction
3.3.l Total internal reflection
3.3.2 Dispersion
3.4 Diffuse reflections
3.5 Scattering
3.5.1 Wavelength-dependent scattering
3.5.2 Wavelength-independent scattering
3.6 Interference
3.7 Diffraction
3.8 Fluorescence
3.9 Polarization
4 Sources of light
4.1 Light and its spectrum
4.2 Thermal radiation
4.3 Non-thermal radiation
Reference
5 Wavelength reconsidered
Part Ⅲ Geometry and two-dimensional design
6 Geometry and the picture plane
6.1 From 3D to 2D
6.2 The human brain’s construction of three-dimensional reality
6.3 Linear perspective and the Camera Obscura
