Coordinate Geometric Approach to Spherometer
General Physics
2013-09-10 v1
Abstract
The spherometer used for measuring radius of curvature of spherical surfaces is explicitly based on a geometric relation unique to circles and spheres. We present an alternate approach using coordinate geometry, which reproduces the well-known result for the spherometer and also leads to a scheme to study aspherical surfaces. We shall also briefly describe some of the modified spherometers.
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@article{arxiv.1309.1951,
title = {Coordinate Geometric Approach to Spherometer},
author = {Sameen Ahmed Khan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1951},
year = {2013}
}
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12 pages, 5 figures