Here is an outline of the expected structure of the course. This is the first time that I have taught this course so this is going to be only a rough guide. It is likely to be fairly accurate at first and to get steadily less and less tied to reality the further out into the future you go. This is reflected in the fact that I have not filled in all the readings yet.
Note the following abbreviations.
| Week: | Topics | Readings | Laboratory |
| 1: 1/21 | Mass on spring |
HRW 15:1-5 |
Energy and errors |
| 2: 1/28 | Driven oscillators and resonance Inhomogeneous Linear ODEs |
HRW 6-9 Tay 3 AM look at some examples |
Pendulum and Errors |
| 3: 2/4 | Coupled Oscillators & Normal Modes |
Tay 4 AM 71-74 |
Measuring g |
| 4: 2/11 | Coupled Linear ODEs Boundary Conditions & Superposition |
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Resonance |
| 5: 2/18 | Waves on a string Wave Equation, Partial Differential Equations |
HRW 16:1-7 AM 258-261 |
Mid-term Exam I |
| 6: 2/25 | 1-D Wave Equation, Normal Modes, & Superposition Fourier Ideas |
HRW 16:8-13 | Standing Waves on String |
| 7: 3/3 | Waves, non-standing waves |
HRW 17:1-4 | Speed of Sound |
| 8: 3/10 | Sound, Beats, Doppler, Instruments Fourier Analysis & Timbre |
HRW 17:5-10 | Unknown |
| Spring Break | |||
| 9: 3/31 | Electric Fields Vector Addition |
HRW 22 | Electrostatics Lab |
| 10: 4/7 | Electric Potentials and Energy | HRW 24 | Mid-Term Exam II |
| 11: 4/14 | Waves in >1-D, Light, Interference |
HRW 35:1-4 | Field Plotting |
| 12: 4/21 | Interference, Multiple Slits, Interferometers |
HRW 35:5-8 | Lenses & Images |
| 13: 4/28 | Diffraction, Slits and Edges, Intensity Phase Integrals |
HRW 36:1-10 | Wavelength of Light w/ Ruler |
| 14: 5/5 | Matter waves Ideas of a wave function and probability |
HRW 38:1-6 | Interference & Diffraction |
| 5/15 | Final Exam 09:00-12:00. |
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