Chapter 1: Prolegomenon
Source: Eugene Hecht, Optics, fifth Global Edition, Chapter 1. Prompts are paraphrased by topic rather than reproduced. An asterisk in the heading preserves the book’s marker for a problem omitted from its selected solutions; the derivation below is supplied independently.
Problem inventory
Chapter 1 is introductory and has no end-of-chapter problem set in this edition.