Motility Made Easy
May 19, 2023CPOA Highlights and Review Course
June 20, 2023
Optics Overview
$20.00
Description
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
This course should take approximately 1.5 hour to complete.
This course has been approved by the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.