Physics III: Vibrations and Waves

Course Description

In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, this course also discusses musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.

Lectures

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   Lecture 1 - Periodic Phenomena

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   Lecture 2 - Beats- Damped Free Oscillations

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   Lecture 3 - Forced Oscillations with Damping

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   Lecture 4 - Forced Oscillation, Power at Resonance, and Transient Phenomena

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   Lecture 5 - Coupled Oscillators

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   Lecture 6 - Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule

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   Lecture 7 - Coupled Oscillators, Wave Equation, and Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves

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   Lecture 8 - Traveling Waves, Boundary Conditions, Sound Waves, and Energy in Waves

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   Lecture 9 - Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes

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    Lecture 10 - Exam 1 Review

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    Lecture 11 - Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings

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    Lecture 12 - Dispersion, Phase Velocity, and Group Velocity

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    Lecture 13 - Electromagnetic Waves, Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations, and Polarization

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    Lecture 14 - Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power

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    Lecture 15 - Doppler Effect, Sound, EM Radiation, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes

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    Lecture 16 - Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors, Reflection, and Standing EM Waves

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    Lecture 17 - Wave Guides: Radiation and Sound

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    Lecture 18 - Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics, Index of Refraction, Snell's Law, and Total Internal Reflection

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    Lecture 19 - Exam 2 Review

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    Lecture 20 - Huygens' Principle, Interference, and Thin Films

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    Lecture 21 - Diffraction, Grating, Pin Holes, and Angular Resolution

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    Lecture 22 - Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, and Glories

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    Lecture 23 - Farewell Special