Reading assignments are in:
PHYSICS by Resnick, Halliday and Krane; 4th Ed. (Wiley1992)
Chapters are shown in boldface followed by section numbers.
Homework assignments are to be handed in Monday morning at the end of the lecture.
This schedule may change is a the quarter develops
| Week | Lect | Date | Topics | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-3 | Jan 5-9 | Pulses, waves, propagation speed, frequency, wavelength
Power, intensity, superposition, standing waves, resonance Pressure waves, sound, decibels, standing waves. |
15:3; 19:1-10
17:2; 20:1-4 |
| 2 | 4-6 | Jan 12-16 | HW1 due this week Sound sources, beats and the Doppler effect for sound Maxwell's equations and confined electromagnetic waves Travelling electromagnetic waves and Maxwell's equations |
20:5-7
40:1-4 41:1-3 |
| 3 | 7 | Jan 19-23 | HW2 due this week Monday: Holiday; Hmwk due Wednesday Energy and momentum of electromagnetic waves. EXAM 1 Friday Jan. 23 |
41:4-5 |
| 4 | 8-10 | Jan 26-30 | No Hmwk due this week Speed of light and doppler effect for light Reflection and refraction of light; Huygens and Fermats principles Planar mirrors and interfaces, total internal reflection, light pipes. |
42:1-3
43:1-3 43:4-6 |
| 5 | 11-13 | Feb 2-6 | HW3 due this week Spherical mirrors and interfaces, objects and images Images for lenses Optical Instruments |
44:1-2
44:3-4 44:5 |
| 6 | 14-15 | Feb 9-13 | HW4 due this week
Interference and coherence Interference and thin films EXAM 2 Friday Feb 13 |
45:1-2
45:3-4 |
| 7 | 16-17 | Feb 16-20 | No homework due this week.
Monday:Holiday; Hmwk due Wednesday Michaelson Interferometer Single slit diffraction |
45:5-7
46:1-2 |
| 8 | 18-20 | Feb 23-27 | HW5 due this week.
Diffraction from slit and cirular aperture Double slit interference and single slit diffraction combined Multiple slit interference and diffraction gratings |
46:3-4
46:5 47:1-3 |
| 9 | 21-22 | March 2-6 | HW6 due this week.
Diffraction by crystal lattices and holograms Polarization by absorption and by reflection EXAM 3 Friday March 6 |
47: 4-5
48:1-6 |
| 10 | 23-25 | March 9-13 | HW7 due this week, will NOT be collected
More polarization tba tba |
48:5-7 |