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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:
Lecture 1 - Periodic Phenomena
Lecture 2 - Beats- Damped Free Oscillations
Lecture 3 - Forced Oscillations with Damping
Lecture 4 - Forced Oscillation, Power at Resonance, and Transient Phenomena
Lecture 5 - Coupled Oscillators
Lecture 6 - Driven Coupled Oscillators and Cramer's Rule
Lecture 7 - Coupled Oscillators, Wave Equation, and Transverse Traveling Pulses and Waves
Lecture 8 - Traveling Waves, Boundary Conditions, Sound Waves, and Energy in Waves
Lecture 9 - Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes
Lecture 10 - Exam 1 Review
Lecture 11 - Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings
Lecture 12 - Dispersion, Phase Velocity, and Group Velocity
Lecture 13 - Electromagnetic Waves, Plane Wave Solutions to Maxwell's Equations, and Polarization
Lecture 14 - Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, and Power
Lecture 15 - Doppler Effect, Sound, EM Radiation, Binary Stars, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes
Lecture 16 - Boundary Conditions at Perfect Conductors, Reflection, and Standing EM Waves
Lecture 17 - Wave Guides: Radiation and Sound
Lecture 18 - Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics, Index of Refraction, Snell's Law, and Total Internal Reflection
Lecture 19 - Exam 2 Review
Lecture 20 - Huygens' Principle, Interference, and Thin Films
Lecture 21 - Diffraction, Grating, Pin Holes, and Angular Resolution
Lecture 22 - Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, and Glories
Lecture 23 - Farewell Special
Source: http://academicearth.org/courses/physics-iii-vibrations-and-waves
