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OPT 11 -- Optical Theory I |
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| Due Date | Assignment |
| Module 1.
DUE DATE work sheet 1 |
Course Introduction.
Basic math skills. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 1-8. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 365-371, 373. |
| Module 2.
DUE DATE work sheet 2 |
Basic Theory
of Light.
Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 9-16 (top). |
| Module 3.
DUE DATE work sheet 3 |
Absorption,
Reflection and Refraction.
Angles of incidence, refraction and deviation. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 17(bottom)-21. |
| Module 4.
DUE DATE work sheet 4 |
Index of
refraction.
Slide review presentation . Snell's Law. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 22-24. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 375-377 |
| Module 5.
DUE DATE work sheet 5 |
Refraction
through a lens.
Focal length formula, Diopters. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 28-31. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 385-389. |
| Module 6.
DUE DATE work sheet 6 |
Surface
power formula, Radius of curvature,
Nominal power formula. Lensmakers equation. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 33-37. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 388-390; 399. |
| Module 7.
DUE DATE work sheet 7 |
Types of surfaces and lenses;
Characteristics of plus and minus lenses. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 31(bottom)-33(top). You will need two lenses for a demonstration. They need to be spherical lenses, one plus, one minus. The powers are not important, anything over about 3.00 Diopters will be fine. They do not need to be exact opposite powers. Call your instructor if you do not have access to lenses. |
| Module 8.
DUE DATE work sheet 8 |
Cylinders
and compound lenses.
Optical cross. Flat transposition. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 37-48. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 392- 397; 399-404. |
| Module 9.
DUE DATE work sheet 9 |
Characteristics
of sphero-cylindrical lenses;
Prescription Notation. Spherical equivalent. Practice Questions. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 51-54. You will need a sphero-cylindrical lens for a demonstration. Call your instructor if you do not have access to lenses. |
| Module 10.
DUE DATE work sheet 10 |
Power in
oblique meridians.
Refractive errors. Evaluation of Prescriptions. Practice Questions for oblique meridians. Practice Questions for refractive errors and evaluation of Rx. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 55-59, 62-63. Systems pages 434-437. |
| Module 11.
DUE DATE work sheet 11 |
Vertex distance
compensation.
Back vertex power. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 64-70, 151-154. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 415-424. |
| Module 12.
DUE DATE work sheet 12 |
Basic prism
optics.
Characteristics of a prism. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 71-77. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 377-383. You will need a prism for a demonstration. A 2-5 diopter prism with plano power will do. Call your instructor if you do not have access to a prism. |
| Module 13.
DUE DATE work sheet 13 |
The lens
as a prism & Prentice's rule.
Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 77-81. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 425-427. |
| Module 14.
DUE DATE work sheet 14 |
Cancelling
& compounding prism.
ANSI standards for prism, and Prism in glasses. Reading assignments: Optical Formulas Tutorial pages 81-87; 194-195. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 427-429; 526. |
| Module 15.
DUE DATE work sheet 15 |
Fresnel
optics -- lenses and prisms.
Review. Systems for Ophthalmic Dispensing pages 516-519. |
| Module 16.
DUE DATE |
FINAL EXAM due to Instructor from your proctor by DUE DATE. |
Copyright: NFOS distance learning project, 1999.