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

1. Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes
2. Doppler Effect, Sound, EM Radiation, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
3. Beats- Damped Free Oscillations
4. Diffraction, Grating, Pin Holes, and Angular Resolution
5. Traveling Waves, Boundary Conditions, Sound Waves, and Energy in Waves
6. Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power
7. Periodic Phenomena
8. Huygens' Principle, Interference, and Thin Films
9. Coupled Oscillators, Wave Equation, and Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
10. Electromagnetic Waves, Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations, and Polarization
11. Exam 2 Review
12. Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule
13. Dispersion, Phase Velocity, and Group Velocity
14. Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics, Index of Refraction, Snell's Law, and Total Internal Reflection
15. Coupled Oscillators
16. Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
17. Wave Guides: Radiation and Sound
18. Forced Oscillation, Power at Resonance, and Transient Phenomena
19. Exam 1 Review
20. Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors, Reflection, and Standing EM Waves
21. Forced Oscillations with Damping
22. Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, and Glories