IndxMyop.txt

For "House keeping" reasons I am placing the index
of my book here.

Best,

Otis

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Index for "How to Avoid Nearsightedness"

INDEX

A

Accommodation, 28, 34, 39, 43, 45-50, 52-56, 59, 60, 62-68, 70-77,
81, 84, 89, 91-98, 101-102, 132, 137
Accuracy (equation predictive), 39, 46- 48
Analog, 29, 34, 84, 87, 89, 102, 132
Analysis of eye behavior, 25, 34, 43, 46, 50, 63, 70, 99, 115,
132, 133
Aperture, Iris, 82
Assumptions, 101, 105, 111

B

Black-box, 65, 132
Block diagram, 68, 84, 89
Bode, 102

C

Camera, 28-29, 65, 81, 82, 133
Cats (focal comparison), 41
Chart, Eye, 11-16, 57, 114, 116-118, 133, 134
Closed loop, 34, 39, 103
Colgate, Stirling, 2, 5, 6
Computer, 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 46, 80, 76, 79, 82, 85, 87, 97,
100, 101, 104, 114
Control Theory, 27, 28, 34-37, 43
Control System, 24, 33, 37, 39-41, 46, 57, 59, 64, 75, 79, 82,
84-87, 95, 107, 112, 114
Cornea, 14, 25, 27, 39, 94, 96
Correlation Coefficient, 34, 57, 59-60, 62
Cybernetic, 39, 63, 133

D

Dead-band, 81, 84, 86, 87
Delta (step-input to system), 28, 48, 52, 54, 67
Differential focal status, 106, 107, 109, 110
Diode, for simulation, 36, 86, 89
Diopter, Lens power, 10-13, 27

E

Electrical Engineer, 37, 97
Ergodic, (Time-Series, Ensemble), 105-107
Eskimos, 73-124
Experiment:

Constants, 52
Correlation, 34, 47, 62
Future, 63, 131
Predictions, 46, 48, 50, 51, 54, 56, 62, 63, 68, 70, 81, 116
Result, 62, 65
Thought, 43, 50, 137
Young's, 51, 89

Eye, Accuracy, 39, 46, 48, 51, 63, 66, 72, 91, 101, 105-106,
110-111, 135

F

FAA (Medical), 12-16, 114, 116, 134
Feedback, 29, 49-50, 54, 63, 72, 84, 89, 92, 111, 133
Frequency (response, spectrum), 86- 87, 102, 123

G

Glasses, 3-6, 10-11, 19-23, 40, 114, 117, 120-121, 127
Group, Test and Control, 47-49, 54-56, 71, 121
Growth, Eye, 32-34, 37, 41, 43-45, 54, 56, 91, 93

H

Helmholtz, 33, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46-48, 50, 60-63
Historical Opinion, 19, 118
Hyperopia, 57, 134

I

Idealization of eye's behavior, 68, 79, 96
Impulse disturbance, 37, 56, 67, 70, 94-95
Index of Refraction, 23, 25
Infinity, 47, 71, 74, 135
Iterative (equation), 68

L

Lens:
Defined, 9-10
Contact, 3-4, 14, 94-96, 114
Effect of Negative, 8, 19-20, 51-54
Internal, eye, 26
Power, 10, 25-27, 39
Use, 1, 4, 5, 8, 10-11, 19
Used to Measure Eye, 57

M

Magnitude of experimental result for confirmation, 43, 50, 77,
101-102, 136
Mathematical (model), 17, 33-34, 46, 50, 62-63, 65, 79, 99, 132,
135, 137
Monkeys, 47, 50, 52-53, 57, 59, 67, 77, 96-97

N

Naval Academy, 13, 57, 64, 75
Negative Lens, 4-5, 7-8, 13, 16-19, 23, 29, 37-40
Noise, 63, 65, 67, 70, 81, 86-87, 96, 102, 105-110, 135

O

Offset (environment to focal state), 28, 36, 45, 48, 52, 56, 59,
67-68, 70- 71, 73, 93-95, 98, 101-102, 105
Ophthalmologist, 3, 13, 15, 21, 117, 121, 128, 135
Opinion, 19
Optical, 9, 19, 23, 33, 51, 81, 86-87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99, 101,
110-111, 127, 130, 133, 135-136
Optics, 5, 32-33, 66, 130, 136
Optometrist, 3, 6, 15, 19, 21, 121, 125, 127-128, 136

P

Parallel light rays, 47, 74
Perspective (of eye concepts), 66
Perturbation, 56, 63-70, 73, 80-81, 86- 87, 91, 93-97, 99-102,
105-112, 135, 136
Physiological, 32-33, 37, 41, 43, 45, 63, 72, 79, 87-89, 100, 111,
130, 133, 136, 137
Physiologist, 99
Piecewise equation (for focal state), 68-70
Pilots, 18, 113-115, 126, 131
Poison (optical), 19
Positive Lens, 5-6, 9-10, 15, 17, 19, 40, 57, 66, 117, 134, 136
Prentice, Charles, 20, 31
Primate, 36, 51-52, 62-64, 72-73, 90- 91, 97, 99, 101, 110, 121
Probable Error (system tracking), 66, 91, 100, 110
Prolonged confined environment, 73, 74
Program (noise predictive), 107

Q

Qualitative theories (comparison), 39, 51, 56, 72
Quantitative theories (comparison), 28, 34, 37, 39, 46, 51-52, 56,
63, 72, 77

R

Ramp (increasingly confined environment), 37, 73-75
Refraction, 19-20, 23-25, 37
Retina, 26-27, 39, 43, 71, 81-82, 84, 89, 91, 100, 110, 122-123,
133, 136-137
Rigid (optical) system, 28, 51
RMS (Root Mean Square), 105-110

S

Science, 2, 31, 33, 39, 43, 36, 65, 113, 126, 135-136
Servo, 54, 62, 63, 66-68, 71-73, 77-78, 84, 86-87, 99, 102, 110, 137
Servomechanism, 62, 112
Servo-Myopia, 73
Simulation, 37, 83-87, 112, 132
Stark, Lawrence, 34, 41, 91, 112
Stability of focus, 34, 63
Statistical tests (distribution), 62, 86-87, 97, 105-107, 137
Step-input (delta), 46, 93
Stop (optical), 79, 86-89, 116
Student, 8, 13, 20, 57, 74-75, 113, 118, 131
Students "t" (statistical test), 59
Synthesis of dynamic behavior, 62-63

T

Testing, 9, 12, 23, 37, 48, 65, 125, 128, 132, 133, 135, 137-138
Thought experiment, 43, 50, 137
Time-constant (dynamic focal behavior), 36, 45-46, 51-52, 54, 63,
66, 67, 70, 77, 86, 94, 99,
102
Tonic accommodation, 81, 89-90, 137
Tracking (environment), 66, 70, 91, 99- 100, 102, 105-106, 110-111
Transfer Function (for eye's behavior), 34, 45, 47, 56, 67-68, 70,
75, 86, 93, 102, 137
Twenty-Twenty (20/20), 1, 5-6, 11-16, 22, 57, 73, 75, 113,
115-117, 131, 133-134, 138

V

Verification, 9, 23, 70, 77, 110, 137

Y

Young, Francis, 34, 41, 53, 73, 77, 89, 91, 92, 97, 131