Interlibrary Loan of the day

Optics by Eugene Hecht brings a nostalgic tear to Captain ILL's eye. This is the very same optics textbook that Captain ILL used when he was in ... uhh ... superhero school. All superhero students who can shoot laser beams out of their eyes are required to take a course in optics. This class covered basic stuff like reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization, Maxwell's equations, and interferometry. Best of all though, it covered lasers! Everyone loves lasers, of course, but lasers have a special place in Captain ILL's heart for obvious reasons. Even the mind-boggling math on every single page of this book couldn't diminish the Captain's love of lasers. Optics, like most things learnt in school, isn't the sort of thing you use in your day to day life. However, there are a few useful nuggets like the Law of Reflection: "The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection." This is extremely useful to know when you have to bounce a laser beam off a mirror and into the posterior of some villain. Remember kids, use knowledge responsibly!