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To download the SIT Conic spreadsheet click here (MD5 = F13AEAE7DF1F740BDC2250ADDC172D1C) Jeff Baldwin's youtube video - taking a SIT image Jeff Baldwin's youtube video - processing a SIT image click to download the 24 mega byte imageJ input tif file to be used with SIT spreadsheet Olympus E300 Evolt Canon T2i EOS Rebel |
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SIT Nonlinear Algebraic Equations | ||
This is a newer and I think easier to understand version of the SIT equations. The original equations can be found here. And of course, both produce the same results. SIT is a Fixed Source Test and as such, the angle of the source ray s is equal to the angle of reflection ray r as measured with respect to the Normal per Fig-1:
The Normal vector (per Fig-1 equation 2) of the form y=mx+b is y=-z'x+zz'+h, where zz'+h is the b term. Knowing z, the other side of that right triangle is found using similar triangles where the derivative z' serves as the other triangle with similar sides. Derivative z' and 1/z' are used in many places in Fig-1 in this manner which has greatly simplified this new version of the SIT equations, which gets exactly the same results as the old. Excels Solver (Root finder) is used to find the numerical solution to the SIT nonlinear algebraic equations, which can be simply summarized as: z is varied (using a Root finder) until Yz of Fig-2 equation 12 is nearly equals to Ym (the slit images as measured by ImageJ). Instead of using Z=-Kz of Fig-4 to compute the Foucault, Z=(h-Rz'+zz')/z' is used instead being it avoids multiplying by K=-0 when the conic is a sphere. |
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