Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments

Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments
Author: Paul R. Yoder
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2008
Genre: Optical instruments
ISBN: 0819471291

Entirely updated to cover the latest technology, this Second Edition gives optical designers and optomechanical engineers a thorough understanding of the principal ways in which optical components - lenses, windows, filters, shells, domes, prisms, and mirrors of all sizes - are mounted in optical instruments.Along with new information on tolerancing, sealing considerations, elastomeric mountings, alignment, stress estimation, and temperature control, two new chapters address the mounting of metallic mirrors and the alignment of reflective and catadioptric systems.The updated accompanying CD-ROM offers a convenient spreadsheet of the many equations that are helpful in solving problems encountered when mounting optics in instruments.

A System Engineering Approach to Imaging

A System Engineering Approach to Imaging
Author: Norman S. Kopeika
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1998
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780819423771

This textbook addresses imaging from the system engineering point of view, examining advantages and disadvantages of imaging in various spectral regions. Focuses on imaging principles and system concepts, rather than devices. Intended as a senior-year undergraduate or graduate level engineering textbook. A solution manual is included.

Analysis of Sampled Imaging Systems

Analysis of Sampled Imaging Systems
Author: Richard H. Vollmerhausen
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2000
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780819434890

Advances in solid state detector arrays, flat panel displays and digital image processing have prompted an increasing variety of sampled imaging products and possibilities. These technology developments provide new opportunities and problems for the design engineer and system analyst - this tutorial's intended reader.

Computational and Experimental Simulations in Engineering

Computational and Experimental Simulations in Engineering
Author: Hiroshi Okada
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1278
Release: 2019-11-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 303027053X

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 24th International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences (ICCES), held in Tokyo, Japan on March 25-28, 2019. ICCES covers all aspects of applied sciences and engineering: theoretical, analytical, computational, and experimental studies and solutions of problems in the physical, chemical, biological, mechanical, electrical, and mathematical sciences. As such, the book discusses highly diverse topics, including composites; bioengineering & biomechanics; geotechnical engineering; offshore & arctic engineering; multi-scale & multi-physics fluid engineering; structural integrity & longevity; materials design & simulation; and computer modeling methods in engineering. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization

Encyclopedia of Materials Characterization
Author: Charles A. Evans
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1992
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780750691680

"This is a comprehensive volume on analytical techniques used in materials science for the characterization of surfaces, interfaces and thin films. This flagship volume is a unique, stand-alone reference for materials science practitioners, process engineers, students and anyone with a need to know about the capabilities available in materials analysis. An encyclopedia of 50 concise articles, this book will also be a practical companion to the forthcoming books in the series."--Knovel.

The Philosophy of Science

The Philosophy of Science
Author: Sahotra Sarkar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1012
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0415939275

The first in-depth reference to the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, this encyclopedia brings together a team of leading scholars to provide nearly 150 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. The areas covered include biology, chemistry, epistemology and metaphysics, physics, psychology and mind, the social sciences, and key figures in the combined studies of science and philosophy. (Midwest).