OPTOM 111Fundamentals of Visual Optics
- Faculty
- Science
- Offered
- Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1980–81 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
The eye as an optical instrument. Ametropia and emmetropia. The refracting mechanism. The stimulus to accommodation. Ocular transmission. Visual acuity and visual performance; Stray light in the eye; analysis of the retinal stimulus pattern.
As printed in the 1980–81 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: OPTOM 106
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
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- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1980–81 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1980–81 to 1994–95 15 calendars
The eye as an optical instrument. Ametropia and emmetropia. The refracting mechanism. The stimulus to accommodation. Ocular transmission. Visual acuity and visual performance; Stray light in the eye; analysis of the retinal stimulus pattern.
Prereq: OPTOM 106
Offered Winter · 3 class, 3 lab hours a week · 0.5 credit