{"id":1452,"date":"2016-08-25T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/jcwyant\/?page_id=1452"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:47:41","slug":"mathematica-and-cdfs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/mathematica\/mathematica-and-cdfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematica and CDFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Using Mathematica to Solve Optics Problems<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathematica<\/a> can be used to solve most math problems. The free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/cdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wolfram CDF player<\/a> can bring documents created using Mathematica to life and the interactive documents can be viewed using a web browser. On this web site I am illustrating a few examples of what can be done using Mathematica and the CDF Reader to solve some optics problems. The CDF Reader can be downloaded at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/cdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/cdf\/<\/a>. These examples are part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/index.html\">Wolfram Demonstrations Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Moir\u00e9<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MoirePatternOfTwoStraightLinePatterns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Straight Lines*<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MoirePatternOfTwoEquallySpacedCircularRingPatterns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Equally Spaced Circular*<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/MoirePatternOfTwoFresnelZonePlates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Fresnel Zone Plates*<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Seidel Aberration<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/WavefrontMapsAndProfilesOfSeidelAberrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seidel Aberration*<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/PointSpreadAndModulationTransferFunctionsForSeidelAberration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PSF and MTF for Seidel Aberration*<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Zernike Polynomials<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/PlotsOfZernikePolynomials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wavefront Plots of Single Zernike*<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/PointSpreadAndModulationTransferFunctionsOfZernikeWavefronts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PSF and MTF for Single Zernike*<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/mathematica\/\">&lt;&lt; Back to Mathematica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Mathematica to Solve Optics Problems Mathematica can be used to solve most math problems. The free Wolfram CDF player can bring documents created using Mathematica to life and the interactive documents can be viewed using a web browser. On this web site I am illustrating a few examples of what can be done using Mathematica and the CDF Reader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1452","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1452\/revisions\/1898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}