Tentative listing of material to be covered in each lecture,
as well as material not covered in lecture but which you
are expected to read. Items listed "for fun" will not be
covered on tests.
Actual coverage and reading will be given in red.
| Lecture | Date | Covered in lecture | Reading (not covered) |
| 1.1 | Mar. 29 | 19.1-3 Mechanical waves and their description | 19.3 Sinusoidal waves, Phase and phase constant, Group speed and dispersion |
| 1.2 | Mar. 31 |
19.4-5 Wave Speed and Wave equation 19.7 Superposition (first part of section) 19.6 Power in waves (mentioned briefly) |
19.6 Power and Intensity in waves 19.7 Superposition (Complex Waves and Fourier analysis part) |
| 1.3 | Apr. 2 |
19.3 Sine waves 19.9 Standing waves |
19.8 Interference 19.10 Resonance |
| 2.1 | Apr. 5 | 20.1-2 Sound waves and speed of sound | 17.2 Pressure and density |
| 2.2 | Apr. 7 |
20.2 Travelling longitudinal waves (cont) 20.3 Power and Intensity in sound Measuring speed of sound |
20.5 Vibrating systems and sources of sound |
| 2.3 | Apr. 9 |
20.4 Standing waves 20.6 Beats (very briefly) 20.7 Doppler Effect |
20.6 Beats |
| 3.1 | Apr. 12 |
Energy stored in waves on strings 40.1,3 Maxwell's equations 40.2 Displacement current |
40.4 Cavity oscillations |
| 3.2 | Apr. 14 | 41.3 EM waves |
41.1 EM spectrum 41.2 Generating EM waves |
| 3.3 | Apr. 16 | First midterm | |
| 4.1 | Apr. 19 |
41.3 Recap EM waves 41.4 Energy transport and the Poynting vector 41.5 Start Radiation pressure |
41.5 Radiation pressure |
| 4.2 | Apr. 21 |
41.5 Understanding radiation pressure 42.3 Doppler effect for light (description and red shift) |
42.1 Visible light 42.2 Speed of light |
| 4.3 | Apr. 23 | 42.3-5 Doppler effect for light (details---see handout 5) |
42.4-5 Dopper effect (those parts not covered in class) |
| 5.1 | Apr. 26 |
43.1 Geometrical and wave optics 43.2 Reflection and refraction Short discussion of coherence, dispersion, and total internal reflection. |
43.2 Optional part 43.3 Deriving law of reflection (alternative approaches) |
| 5.2 | Apr. 28 |
Deriving law of reflection using Maxwell's equations (see handout 6) Deriving law of refraction using Maxwell's equations (see handout 7) Apparent depth 43.4 Image formation by plane mirrors |
43.5 Deriving law of refraction (alternative approaches) 43.6 Total internal reflection |
| 5.3 | Apr. 30 |
44.1 Spherical mirrors and mirror equation |
44.1 Deriving mirror and magnification equations |
| 6.1 | May. 3 |
44.2 Spherical refracting surfaces 44.3 Thin lenses |
44.2-3 Derivations of thin lens equation 44.4 Compound optical systems 44.5 Optical Instruments |
| 6.2 | May. 5 | 45.1 and 45.3 Double slit interference | 45.2 Coherence |
| 6.3 | May. 7 | Second midterm | |
| 7.1 | May. 10 | 45.4 Thin film interference |
45.5 Phase changes on reflection 45.6 Michelson' Interferometer 45.7 (for fun only) Michelson's int. and light propagation |
| 7.2 | May. 12 | 46.2-3 Single slit diffraction | 46.1 Diffraction and the wave theory of light |
| 7.3 | May. 14 |
46.3 Complete single slit derivation 46.5 Double-slit interference and diffraction combined 46.4 Resolution |
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| 8.1 | May. 17 |
46.4 Complete resolution 47.1 Multiple slits 47.2 Diffraction gratings (started) |
47.2 Diffraction gratings (finish) |
| 8.2 | May. 19 |
47.3 Dispersion and resolving power 47.4 X-ray diffraction |
47.5 Holography (for fun---will not be on tests) |
| 8.3 | May. 21 |
Holographs 48.1-2 Polarization and polarizers 48.3 Polarization by reflection |
48.1-2 Read for more background and applications |
| 9.1 | May. 24 |
48.6 Scattering of light 48.4 Double refraction 48.5 Circular polarization |
48.4 Double refraction (read for more details) |
| 9.2 | May 26 |
A little more fun with polarization 49.5 Photoelectric effect 49.6 Einstein's theory of photons |
49.5 More details on photoelectric effect experiment 49.7 Compton effect (for fun---will not be tested) 49.1-4 More on QM (for fun--will not be tested) |
| 9.3 | May. 28 | Third midterm | |
| 10.1 | May. 31 | Memorial day | |
| 10.2 | June 2 |
Momentum of photons and Compton effect (briefly) 50.1-3 Wave properties of particles |
50.10 Complementarity (for fun---will not be tested) |
| 10.3 | June 4 |
49.8 Line spectra 50.4 Wave packets and particles 50.5 Heisenberg uncertainty principle |
51.1 Bohr atom (for fun---will not be tested) |