Course information

Simple Harmonic Oscillator (free, damped, forced), [Dumping, Forced oscillations, Complex Impedance Resonance effects]. Coupled Oscillators, [Normal modes, Systems with many degrees of freedom, Periodic system, Electrical Oscillations]. Waves in 1-dimensional continuous media, [Wave-differential equation in 1-dimension, Traveling waves, Standing waves, Reflection, transmission, in discontinuities.] Dispersion, [Wave-packets, Phase- and Group- velocities, Surface waves in liquids.] Fourier methods, [Bandwidth theorem, Finite elastic medium-Fourier series, Infinite elastic medium-Fourier Integral, Bandwidth theorems and Uncertainty Principle]. Waves in 2-dimensional continuous media, [Wave-differential equation in 2-dimensions, Standing waves in 2-D, Degeneracy, Density of States, Traveling waves in 2-D, Reflection-transmission, Wave-guiding.] Waves in 3-dimensional elastic media [(acoustic, electromagnetic). Polarization, Fresnel coefficients, Acoustic waves, Electromagnetic waves, Polarization, Fresnel coefficients.] Interference, Diffraction (general principles), [Wavefront-splitting interference, Amplitude-splitting interference, Fraunhofer diffraction].