Light - Ian A. (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford) Walmsley - Bog

In this Very Short Introduction Ian Walmsley introduces the physics of light. Beginning with the earliest conceptions of the nature of light he traces the growth of our understanding, through competing particle and wave theories to wave-particle duality and quantum theory, and the latest exciting applications such as optoelectronics.