Course Highlights
This undergraduate course features lecture notes, take-home experiments, and a collection of answers to questions and comments the instructor received from students via an anonymous e-mail form.
Course Description
Mechanical vibrations and waves, simple harmonic motion, superposition, forced vibrations and resonance, coupled oscillations and normal modes, vibrations of continuous systems, reflection and refraction, phase and group velocity. Optics, wave solutions to Maxwell's equations, polarization, Snell's law, interference, Huygens's principle, Fraunhofer diffraction, and gratings.
*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.
