Optics Overview
Course Overview
This course is intended for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
After completing this section the student should be able to do the following:
- Identify light rays with the shortest and longest wavelengths
- List the colors in the visible light spectrum from shortest to longest wavelength
- Identify the wavelength of red light
- Identify the wavelength of violet light
- Describe the Quantum theory
- State the speed of light in a vacuum
- Describe the wave theory including the 2 factors that affect how light rays will be bent
- Define Index of refraction
- Define reflection and how the angle of reflection relates to the angle of incidence
- Identify light rays that are in phase and light rays that are not in phase
- Describe how light reacts when they pass through a prism
- Identify converging and diverging lenses as plus and/or minus lenses
- Find the focal point of a lens with a known power
- Identify where the focal points of plus powered versus minus powered lenses fall
- Find the displacement of an image given the power of a prism
- Find the sphere cylinder equivalent of a given prescription
- Transpose a prescription from minus to plus cylinder and vice versa
- Identify types of lens aberrations
- Describe minification and magnification aberrations and why they occur
- Use Prentice�s rule to find induced prism
- Describe the base curve of a lens and what is used to measure it
- Identify the refractive power of the lens and cornea
- Describe the physiology of an emmetropic, myopic, hyperopic, and astigmatic eye
- Calculate the far point of an eye given the refractive error
- Define with the rule, against the rule, and oblique astigmatism
- Understand the types of astigmatism- simple myopic, compound myopic, simple hyperopic, compound hyperopic, mixed
- Calculate
total prism effect OU when given prism amounts for OD and OS-
understand how prism in each eye affects total prism amounts
Here is what some ophthalmic personnel who took this course had to say:
“this was a great indepth course in optics.” M.M., COT
“Wonderful explanations of a difficult subject- very useful for preparing for certification exams!” L.C., COMT
This course should take approximately one hour to complete.