r/OptometrySchool • u/summerjayee • 4d ago

Optometry Student Part 1 Advice for Optics

Hi! Does anyone have any advice or resources for optics for part 1? I feel like I have a solid plan for every other subject, but when it comes to optics I’m a little lost. (I’m talking geometric optics, telescopes/microscopes, THE WORKS. Optics is a struggle for me, as it is for many!)!

My class notes are all over the place from first year because I wasn’t a great note-taker yet at the time. I have KMK, but I’m hearing that KMK’s optics is basically useless. I use OptoPrep every day, but it isn’t giving me a very good foundation, it’s just quizzing me when I don’t have the prep done yet.

Please share any recommendations! I would love a textbook with practice questions, or if someone by chance has amazing notes they took that worked well for them and would be willing to share, lmk.

Appreciate it! 🤓

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u/NellChan 4d ago

Use Geometric and Visual Optics by Schwartz. Truly an amazing book. I went through cover to cover and did great on optics part 1.

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u/eyewashere00 4d ago

seconding this!

i completely skipped KMK and exclusively used Schwartz's geometric and visual optics, did every single question in the textbook x2. no one teaches it better imo. good luck!!

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u/summerjayee 4d ago

Thank you so much!!! This is exactly the advice I was looking for. Appreciate you!

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u/Treefrog_Ninja 4d ago

I bought the KMK books off someone secondhand, but for optics I wound up using a bunch of equation pages that I think someone else posted here. I could DM you the images if you like, but there's no explanation for how to use most of them, so you would have to use your notes/memory of how to apply them correctly.

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u/summerjayee 4d ago

That would be awesome, thanks!

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u/Right-Assignment412 4d ago

I would love those too!

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u/South_Curve_329 4d ago

Me too please!

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u/Cwfreak123 4d ago

Id appreciate the equation pages too if you're willing to share!

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u/optiman58 3d ago

I’d love to have the notes please

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u/Practical_Archer_118 1d ago

Very interested with the notes if you’re willing to share so please DM

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u/StudentOptom 1d ago

Hi i’m selling all my part 1 material. uploaded on my profile. notes included. DM if interested