Name: Light
ISBN: 9780199682690

Ian A. Walmsley

Introduces readers to the basic properties of light -reflection and refraction, polarization, and interference- before moving on to how light is generated, its role in relativity, and quantum effects it exhibits.

A Very Short Introduction

Light

John Manoogian III

Was expecting more on the visual acts of light — shadow, specularity, diffusion, color, reflection, refraction, caustics, vision, etc. While an abbreviated subset of these along with a brief history of optics forms the beginning of this book, instead almost half of the (admittedly small) book is dedicated to topics like computing the speed of light, special vs general relativity, and quantum light. These more theoretical topics related more to physics and weren’t relevant to my interests in light, and are quite well covered in other texts and websites. Caveat lector.

Light A Very Short Introduction

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