"Opticians bend light. Understanding how to accomplish that in a fashion that fulfills the requirements of the doctor's prescription is the optician8217s power. The apprentice or student optician often have difficulty visualizing and understanding concepts critical to obtaining optician certifications like the ABO exam. Certifiable Optician is the first step in making topics like prism, focal length, Prentice's Rule, anatomy refractive errors and the lenses that correct these errors second nature. Master the topics in this book and you will pass your exam.Visualizing optical concepts reinforces understanding and builds a bridge to deducing an answer as opposed to relying on rote memorization. Indeed, memorization becomes easier with understanding. Working through the practice exercises at the end builds the 8220muscle memory8221 you need to succeed. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. The Certifiable Optician takes that adage to heart and uses over 125 diagrams and illustrations to trigger understanding and visualization of core optician concepts. This approach promises to add another layer to your understanding so when confronted with the concept in other studies or in a real-life situation you can draw on that understanding to narrow the choices you will have to make. That provides better results with less painful repetition. If you are serious about achieving certification you now have a valuable tool waiting.
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