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Last-minute optics : a concise review of optics, refraction, and contact lenses /

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"Last-Minute Optics, 3rd Edition, distills a vast amount of complex information into an easy-to-read, engaging text that makes the most of your limited study time. Now in full color for the first time, this clear and concise review manual features a unique question-and-answer format that allows...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hunter, David G., 1957- (Editor), Wan, Michael J. (Editor), West, Constance E., 1958- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Elsevier, [2025]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Lenses.
Eye > Refractive errors.
Ocular Physiological Phenomena.
Optical Phenomena.
Refractive Errors.
Examination Questions.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Refraction and reflection
  • Vergence, lenses, objects, and images
  • Mirrors
  • Principles of light and lasers
  • The model eye
  • Visual acuity testing
  • Refraction and optical dispensing
  • Lens effectivity and vertex distance
  • Accommodation, presbyopia, and bifocals
  • Cylinders, crosses (axis and power), and spherocylindrical notation
  • Astigmatism
  • Aberrations, distortions, and irregularities
  • Contact lenses
  • Intraocular lenses
  • Refractive surgery
  • Prisms and diplopia
  • Instruments
  • Low vision
  • Good people, bad optics: the dissatisfied patient
  • Summary of important optics formulas.