Inthe1950s,thedistinguishedtheoreticalphysicistWolfgangPaulideliveredatrademarkseriesoflecturesattheSwissFederalInstituteofTechnologyinZurich.Hiscomprehensivecoverageofthefundamentalsofclassicalandmodernphysicswaspainstakinglyrecordednotonlybyhisstudentsbutalsobyanumberofcollaboratorswhosecarefullyeditedtranscriptionsresultedinaremarkablesix-volumework.Thisvolume,thesecondoftheseries,focusingonopticsandthetheoryofelectrons,examinesgeometricaloptics,thetheoryofinterferenceanddiffraction,Maxwell’sTheory,crystaloptics,andmolecularoptics.Asdoeseachvolumeintheseries,thisbookincludesanindexandawealthofhelpfulfigures,andcanbereadindependentlyoftheseriesbythosewhowishtofocusonaparticulartopic.
