The Optics of Life : : A Biologist's Guide to Light in Nature / / Sönke Johnsen.
Optics--a field of physics focusing on the study of light--is also central to many areas of biology, including vision, ecology, botany, animal behavior, neurobiology, and molecular biology. The Optics of Life introduces the fundamentals of optics to biologists and nonphysicists, giving them the tool...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 8 color illus. 24 halftones. 90 line illus. 7 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. Units and Geometry
- Chapter Three. Emission
- Chapter Four. Absorption
- Chapter Five. Scattering
- Chapter Six. Scattering with Interference
- Chapter Seven. Fluorescence
- Chapter Eight. Polarization
- Chapter Nine. Measuring Light
- Chapter Ten. What Is Light, Really?
- Appendix A. Converting Spectral Irradiance to Lux
- Appendix B. Calculating the Absorbance Spectrum of a Visual Pigment
- Appendix C. Refractive Indices of Common Substances
- Appendix D. Optical Properties of Very Clear Water
- Appendix E. Optical Properties of Natural Waters
- Appendix F. Useful Formulas
- Appendix G. Equipment and Software Suppliers
- Bibliography
- Index