Physics 42200 - Waves and Oscillations


Lecture notes:

Jan 11 Lecture 1 notes Introduction
Jan 13 Lecture 2 notes Initial value problems
Jan 15 Lecture 3 notes Simple harmonic motion
Jan 20 Lecture 4 notes Phase diagrams, physical springs, other springy systems
Jan 22 Lecture 5 notes Even more oscillating systems
Jan 25 Lecture 6 notes Damped oscillations
Jan 27 Lecture 7 notes Forced oscillations
Jan 29 Lecture 8 notes Resonance
Feb 1 Lecture 9 notes Coupled oscillators
Feb 3 Lecture 10 notes More coupled oscillators
Feb 5 Lecture 11 notes Forced, coupled oscillators
Feb 8 Lecture 12 notes Coupled oscillator circuits
Feb 10 Lecture 13 notes Many coupled oscillators
Feb 12 Lecture 14 notes Many coupled oscillators/waves in continuous media
Feb 15 Lecture 15 notes Fourier analysis
Feb 17 Lecture 16 notes Fourier analysis example, forced oscillations.
Feb 19 Lecture 17 notes Elastic rods, transmission lines.
Feb 22 Lecture 18 notes Continuous Fourier transforms.
Feb 24 Lecture 19 notes Reflections, impedance.
Feb 26 Lecture 20 notes Impedance matching in transmission lines.
Feb 29 Lecture 21 notes Waves in 2 dimensions - Bessel functions.
Mar 2 Lecture 22 notes Waves in 2 and 3 dimensions.
Mar 4 Lecture 23 notes Review.
Mar 7 Lecture 24 notes More review.
Mar 9 Lecture 25 Answers to questions.
Mar 21 Lecture 26 notes Introduction to optics.
Mar 23 Lecture 27 notes Geometric optics.
Mar 25 Lecture 28 notes Geometric optics - thin lenses.
Mar 28 Lecture 29 notes Geometric optics - thick lenses, ray tracing.
Mar 30 Lecture 30 notes Geometric optics - stops and pupils.
Apr 1 Lecture 31 notes Geometric optics - distortions, prisms and fiber optics.
Apr 4 Lecture 32 notes Polarization.
Apr 6 Lecture 33 notes More polarization.
Apr 8 Lecture 34 notes Stokes parameters, Jones calculus.
Apr 11 Lecture 35 notes Interference.
Apr 13 Lecture 36 notes Interference.
Apr 15 Lecture 37 notes Interference, single slit diffraction.
Apr 18 Lecture 38 notes Single and multiple slit diffraction.
Apr 20 Lecture 39 notes Fresnel Diffraction.
Apr 25 Lecture 40 notes Review part 1
Apr 27 Lecture 41 notes Review part 2