Focal length — The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly it converges (focuses) or diverges (diffuses) light. A system with a shorter focal length has greater optical power than one with a long focal length. Thin lens approximation For… … Wikipedia
Point spread function — The point spread function (PSF) describes the response of an imaging system to a point source or point object. A related but more general term for the PSF is a system s impulse response. The PSF in many contexts can be thought of as the extended… … Wikipedia
FOCAL (programming language) — FOCAL, (abbreviation of FOrmula CALculator), is an interpreted programming language resembling JOSS.Largely the creation of Richard Merrill, FOCAL was initially written for and had its largest impact on the Digital Equipment Corporation s (DEC s) … Wikipedia
FOCAL-69 — was the landmark version of the FOCAL programming language, more widely publicized than the original version of the language created in 1968. FOCAL 69, created by Richard Merrill is important because: * It was the basis for all later derivatives… … Wikipedia
Focal plane array testing — (under development sep 15)Focal Plane Array testing (FPA testing) is the test engineering process of validation and verification (V V) of operation of focal plane array imaging devices, device under test (DUT), at various levels of the… … Wikipedia
Cardinal point (optics) — For other uses, see Cardinal point (disambiguation). In Gaussian optics, the cardinal points consist of three pairs of points located on the optical axis of an ideal, rotationally symmetric, focal, optical system. For ideal systems, the basic… … Wikipedia
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Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology — Established 2005 Director Professor Hans V. Westerhoff Location Ma … Wikipedia
GeoTrax Rail and Road Systems — are sets of interchangeable railroad tracks, roads and buildings that when connected create entire communities and working systems.IntroductionFisher Price GeoTrax Rail and Road Systems, first released in 2003, consist of train engines, train… … Wikipedia
Affine focal set — In mathematics, and especially affine differential geometry, the affine focal set of a smooth submanifold M embedded in a smooth manifold N is the caustic generated by the affine normal lines. It can be realised as the bifurcation set of a… … Wikipedia