Light : a very short introduction
Ian Walmsley
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2015.
- xix, 131 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Very short introductions : 446 .
What is light? -- Light rays -- Waves -- Duality -- Light matters -- Light, space, and time -- Lighting the frontiers -- Quantum light -- Twilight.
Introduces readers to the basic properties of light -reflection and refraction, polarization, and interference- before moving on to how light is generated, its role in relativity, and quantum effects it exhibits.