Publisher's Synopsis
C.V. Raman's celebrated Baroda Lectures (1941) are reprinted in this third volume, in which he elucidates many optical phenomena reflecting forty years of living with light. They include expositions on the geometric theory of Fresnel diffraction by a sphere and a circular disc, the study of haloes and coronae, and his discovery of the speckle phenomenon (1919) from observations of the radiant spectrum seen by the eye.;Other observations on conical refraction, propigation of light in polycrystalline media, and the study of mirages in the context of cosmic mirages formed by gravitational lenses, are also found here. Its relevance for today is emphasized by the Raman-Nath papers on the diffraction of light by ultrasonic waves. These theories were later to find application in many new fields, such as the dynamical theory of electron diffraction.;Scientists, scientific institutes, university libraries, technology institutes and libraries, government laboratories and physics research centres.
