Here is an outline of the expected structure of the course. This is the first time that I have taught the course in this form 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.
Note the following abbreviations.
Week: | Topics | Readings | Laboratory |
1: 1/17 | Reflection & Refraction |
HRW 34 |
Snell's Law |
2: 1/24 | Electrostatics: E Fields & Vector Addition |
HRW 21 & 22 |
Lenses & Images |
3: 1/31 | Electrostatics: Potential and Energy |
HRW 24 |
Electrostatics |
4: 2/7 | Electrodynamics |
I'm thinking! |
E-field mapping |
5: 2/14 | Mass on spring |
HRW 15:1-7 AdvM 2:38-42 |
Mid-term Exam I |
6: 2/21 | Driven oscillators and resonance |
HRW 15:8-9 AdvM 3:71-74 |
Pendulum & Energy |
7: 2/28 | Coupled Oscillators, Coupled Linear ODEs |
Pendulum measuring g | |
8: 3/7 | Waves on a string, Wave Equation, Partial Differential Equations |
HRW 16:1-7 AdvM 12:258-261 |
Resonance I |
Spring Break | |||
9: 3/28 | 1-D Wave Equation, Normal Modes, & Superposition Fourier Ideas |
HRW 16:8-13 HRW 17:1-4 |
Resonance II Driven Osc. & Q |
10: 4/4 | Waves, non-standing waves Fourier Series |
HRW 17:5-10 AdvM 7:182-184 |
Mid-Term Exam II |
11: 4/11 | Waves in >1-D, Light, Interference |
HRW 35:1-4 AdvM 7:184-185 |
Standing Waves on String |
12: 4/18 | Interference, Multiple Slits, Interferometers |
HRW 35:5-8 | Speed of Sound |
13: 4/25 | Diffraction, Slits and Edges, Intensity Phase Integrals |
HRW 36:1-10 | Wavelength of Light with a Ruler |
14: 5/2 | Matter waves Ideas of a wave function and probability |
HRW 38:1-6 | Interference & Diffraction |
5/13 | Final Exam 02:00-5:00 pm. |