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Scope of philosophy; notions, meanings, branches and problems of philosophy. Logic as an indispensable tool of philosophy. Elements of syllogism, symbolic logic— the first nine rules of inference. Informal fallacies, laws of thought, nature of arguments. Valid and invalid arguments, logic of form and logic of content — deduction, induction and inferences. Creative and critical thinking. Impact of philosophy on human existence. Philosophy and politics, philosophy and human conduct, philosophy and religion, philosophy and human values, philosophy and character molding and many others.

Principles of wave optics, interferences, diffraction, polarization, radiometry, holography, quantum nature of light, spectroscopy, lasers. Relativistic optics. Laboratory work is included.

The eye as an optical instrument; reduced and schematic eyes; anomalies of refraction and optical aberrations of the eye. The Badal optometer; resolution and visual acuity. Laboratory work is included.

The extra-ocular muscles, their electrophysiology, actions, and innervation. Accommodation, convergence, the AC/A ratio and binocular co-ordination. Fusion, fusional vergence, retinal disparities and the horopter. Laboratory work is included.

The photochemistry of vision. Sensory aspects of vision; thresholds and adaptation. The mechanisms of colour vision; colour vision defects, their detection and significance. Electrophysiology of the retina and visual pathway. Laboratory work is included.

The perception of depth, direction, size, shape, distance, motion and time through the visual medium. Optical illusions and entoptic phenomena; their causes and significance to the visual system. Laboratory work is included.

Measurement with Optometer set-ups; Demonstration of Purkinje images, optical aberrations, effect of defocus on visual acuity and refractive anomalies. Schematic eye, visual acuities; vernier acuity, stereoacuity, optometer, contrast sensitivity. “AC/A ratio”

Pulfrich phenomenon. colour vision tests. dark adaptation theory and Lab. fixation disparity. Optical illusions experiment. Horoptor. leaf room. Holography. tests of stereopsis. visual threshold experiments. entoptic phenomenon.

Structure and functions of nerves, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle and skeletal muscle, Muscles: structure, excitation, theories of excitation-contraction. Membrane potentials. Nerve generation and conduction of impulse and its physiological properties. Synapses and synaptic transmission

Clinical practice with emphasis on total scope of optometric patient care including general care of children, adults and geriatric populations; diagnosis of ocular disease; contact lenses; visual training and dispensing.