Research Catalog

Title

Optical methods in biology [by] Elizabeth M. Slayter.

Author

Slayter, Elizabeth M.

Publication

New York, Wiley-Interscience [1970]

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Description

viii, 757 p. illus.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Microscopes
• Optics
• Biophysics
• Microscopy > instrumentation
• Optics and Photonics > instrumentation
• X-Ray Diffraction
• Microscopy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Nature of light : geometrical, physical and quantum optics -- Electromagnetic spectrum -- Interference and distraction -- Properties of polarized light beams -- Production of plane polarized light -- Birefringence and optical activity -- Interactions of light with matter -- Geometrical properties of lenses -- Geometrical and chromatic lens aberrations -- Interactions of light waves in the imaging process, resolution -- Origins of contrast -- Light microscopy -- Phase contrast microscopy -- Interference microscope -- Polarizing microscope -- Electrons and electron beams -- Electron lenses -- Electron microscope -- Contrast and resolution in the electron image -- High resolution electron microscopy -- Photographic methods in optical instrumentation -- Sources of monochromatic light -- Monochromators -- Absorption and spectrophotometry -- Measurements of luminescence -- Determination of refractive index -- Optical rotatory dispersion (ORD) and circular dichroism (CD) -- X rays and X ray microscopy -- Crystalline properties of matter as related to X ray diffraction -- X ray diffraction patterns and their use in the determination of spacings -- Determination of electron density distribution by X ray diffraction -- Ultracentrifuge optical systems

ISBN

0471796700

LCCN

^^^76077833^//r92

OCLC

• 57945
• SCSB-10256813

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library