Optics: Video Lectures

This video covers the basic optics you need to know to understand basic glasses prescriptions.
When I began my ophthalmology residency, I had no idea how to read or write a glasses prescription. In this video, I try to explain the basic topics I wish I had known. This includes lens theory, basic spherical problems (near and far-sightedness), astigmatism, cylinder conversion, and presbyopia (bifocals). While this lecture is “basic” and assumes you have no prior glasses experience … this is still important stuff. I hope you find this useful!

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Video Lectures is a website for academic talks launched February 6, 2007. It hosts free online video lectures from open learning incentives such as MIT OpenCourseWare, and many others. Its videos are from research subjects of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, and mostly Computer Science.