Note: you are also required to buy (available at the bookstore)

1. a TurningPoint "clicker"
2. and a lab notebook if you're taking Physics 107 concurrently

Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography David R. Falk, Dieter R. Brill, David G. Stork Wiley, 1986* ISBN-13: 978-0471603856

• lack of digital photography
  I will address CCD cameras in this class and generally ignore film. You are more than welcome to read the chapters on the history of film photography but they will not be on the homework or tests.
• wordiness
  It's not clear to me that other textbooks don't suffer this problem since this is a math-light class. In the absence of math, one must use words. See your homework and test answers for examples! At any rate, my search for a better textbook continues.
• price
  This is really galling which is why I encourage you to purchase a used textbook if possbile. This book needs a serious revision if Wiley continues to plan to sell it at ~$100. THat said, textbooks are never the largest cost of an education; and you can make some $ back by selling it when you're done. You can also consider sharing a textbook with a friend in class (splitting the cost), but of course that carries its own risks.

Last Modified: January 2013 subject to change