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Nonimaging Optics | 
 enlarge | Authors: Roland Winston, Juan C. Minano, Pablo G. Benitez, With Contributions By Narkis Shatz And John C. Bortz
Publisher: Academic Press
Category: Book
List Price: $102.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 672145
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 512
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0127597514
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.369
EAN: 9780127597515
ASIN: 0127597514
Publication Date: January 5, 2005
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Product Description
From its inception nearly 30 years ago, the optical subdiscipline now referred to as nonimaging optics, has experienced dramatic growth. The term nonimaging optics is concerned with applications where imaging formation is not important but where effective and efficient collection , concentration, transport and distribution of light energy is - i.e. solar energy conversion, signal detection, illumination optics, measurement and testing. This book will incorporate the substantial developments of the past decade in this field.
* Includes all substantial developments of the past decade in the rapidly moving field of nonimaging optics
* The only authoritative reference on nonimaging optics, from the leader in the field
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 Online-Edition Missing All Appendices November 16, 2007
D. N. Brown
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Anyone contemplating buying the online-edition of this book should be forwarned: All the appendices, which constitute 77 pages of important reference material, have been left out of this edition. You can see what you're missing in the table of contents, but that's all you'll get to see. The physical book is 491 pages long, while the online-edition gives you only 414 pages.
When I attempted to bring this to the attention of the Amazon customer support staff, I was informed that my message informing them of this technical error was itself lost due to another technical error.
If I cannot have a refund, at least I can save my fellow customers from a frustrating experience.
 Error list urgently needed December 26, 2006
R. G. W. Brown (Tustin, CA, USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book has various mathematical errors in some of the key equations. Even the equation for the basic CPC is wrong.
Yet, in the first book, by Welford and Winston, the key equations are all correct. [Welford was a meticulous proof reader.]
This latest edition is a badly flawed book because of poor (if any) proof reading.
Get the 1st edition if you can (1978 version), to get the correct basic math, then use this edition for a reasonable review of more recent stuff.
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