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Syllabus | Paper-6 PHYSICAL AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS | Bachelor of Optometry | First Year

Syllabus | Paper-6 PHYSICAL AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS | Bachelor of Optometry | First Year

Paper-6 PHYSICAL AND GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

80 hrs.

S. No	Topic	Domain	Hours
Module 1 .	Elementary basis of light	Must Know Basic definitions and laws related to light Clinical applications Desirable to know Electromagnetic spectrum and its effect on human eye Nice to know Propagation of light How do we see Laser interferometer	12 hours
Module 2	Types of Lenses	Must Know How to identify a lens Uses of a lens Lensometer Desirable to know Back vertex power Image formation by a lens Combination of lenses Decentration of a lens Nice to Know Thin lens equation Thick lens equation	12 hours
Module 3	Aberrations of lenses and eyeball	Must Know Different types of optical aberrations Desirable to know How to make aberration free lenses Nice to know Coma Distortion	4 hours
Module 4	Prisms	Must Know Definition Nomenclature Uses Desirable to know How to detect prism How to measure power of a prism Nice to know Compounding and resolving prism power	4 hours
Module 5	Strum’s Conoid	Must Know Definition and formation Desirable to know Clinical application Nice to know Ray diagram	2 hours
Module 6	How to check power of unknown lens	Must Know Lensometer Desirable to know Manual neutralization Nice to know	12 hours
Module 7	Effectivity of lens	Must Know Back vertex power Desirable to know Back vertex distance Nice to know Gauss theorem	3 hours
Module 8	Focimeter	Must Know Uses How to operate Desirable to know Principle Sources of error Nice to know Ray diagram	6 hours
Module 9	Simple &Toric transposition	Must Know How to do transposition Desirable to know Uses	12 hours
Module 10	Prismatic effect &Decentration, Prentice rule	Must Know Prentice Rule Effect of decentration Desirable to know Uses of decentration	3 hours

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