Talk:Optics

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 19 August 2019 and 6 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pgs870.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 05:47, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Trigonometry
Who is the father of trigonometry? How many total trigonometric identities? Highlighter singh (talk) 15:41, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This is the wrong place to ask that question. Try asking at Reference desk/Mathematics.--Srleffler (talk) 02:24, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Optics. Please take a moment to review my edit. You may add after the link to keep me from modifying it, if I keep adding bad data, but formatting bugs should be reported instead. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether, but should be used as a last resort. I made the following changes:
 * Attempted to fix sourcing for http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Chem-History/Bohr/Bohr-1913a.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 14:42, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Roger Bacon
"Bacon was able to use parts of glass spheres as magnifying glasses to demonstrate that light reflects from objects rather than being released from them."


 * This claim is made also in History of Optics; both articles would benefit from a citation which I have as yet been unable to discover. Any historians or physicists who can help out?TimeForLunch (talk) 15:02, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Units !
There is absolutely nothing in this article about optical units. In fact when searching, "unit" is found in "community" and little else. An article about optics need to say something about these: lumen; candela, foot-candle, ... 47.215.188.197 (talk) 03:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Categorization of Fiber optics
Editors of this article may be interested in the discussion at Talk:Silicon photonics. User:Ne0Freedom is trying to remove Category:Fiber optics from Category:Optics and instead put it in his newly created category, Category:Silicon photonics. I strongly oppose this. His view seems to be based on the misconception that anything optical with silicon in it (even silicon dioxide—glass) is automatically "silicon photonics".--Srleffler (talk) 01:52, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Optics. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20070713083148/http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/ to http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 22:41, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Optics. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20151204212728/http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/ to http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20141110224226/http://marketplace.idexop.com/store/SupportDocuments/Fundamental_Optics_OverviewWEB.pdf to http://marketplace.idexop.com/store/SupportDocuments/Fundamental_Optics_OverviewWEB.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 14:15, 2 August 2017 (UTC)