Schaum’s Outline of Optics — Supplementary Problem Solutions

This collection accompanies Eugene Hecht, Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Optics (1975). It covers all 270 numbered Supplementary Problems in Chapters 1–8. The chapter ranges were checked against the scan: 1.31–1.64, 2.26–2.47, 3.31–3.50, 4.62–4.96, 5.48–5.86, 6.52–6.91, 7.52–7.105, and 8.22–8.47.

The original prompts are not reproduced. Open the matching numbered problem in the book for its data and figure, then use the derivation and application here. Numerical checks are included where the problem has a numerical endpoint; proof and construction problems finish at their requested symbolic or graphical result. Formulae use SI units unless the source explicitly supplies another consistent unit system.

Note

A scan OCR error reads Problem 8.43 as 8.48. The printed page and sequence confirm that the convolution problem between 8.42 and 8.44 is 8.43.

• Chapter 1: Wave Motion
• Chapter 2: Electromagnetic Waves and Photons
• Chapter 3: Reflection and Transmission
• Chapter 4: Geometrical Optics
• Chapter 5: Polarization
• Chapter 6: Interference and Coherence
• Chapter 7: Diffraction
• Chapter 8: Introduction to Fourier Optics