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Oscillations
Simple Harmonic Oscillators SHO
Complex Representation.
Energy.
Why study the SHO?
The Damped Oscillator.
Underdamped Oscillations
Over-damped Oscillations.
Critical Damping.
Summary
Oscillator with external forcing.
Complementary function and particular integral
Effect of damping
Resonance.
Electrical Circuits
The Raman Effect
Coupled Oscillators
Normal modes
Resonance
Sinusoidal Waves.
What is ?
Angular frequency and wave number
Phase velocity.
Waves in three dimensions.
Waves in an arbitrary direction.
Electromagnetic Waves.
Electromagnetic Radiation.
Electric dipole radiation.
Sinusoidal Oscillations.
Energy density, flux and power.
The vector nature of electromagnetic radiation.
Linear polarization
Circular polarization
Elliptical polarization
The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Radiation.
Radiowave and Microwave
21cm radiation.
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
Molecular lines.
Infrared
Visible light
Ultraviolet (UV)
X-rays
Gamma Rays
Interference.
Young's Double Slit Experiment.
A different method of analysis.
Michelson Interferometer
Coherence
Spatial Coherence
Temporal Coherence
Diffraction
Single slit Diffraction Pattern.
Angular resolution
Chain of sources
Phased array
Diffraction grating
X-ray Diffraction
Beats
The wave equation.
Longitudinal elastic waves
Transverse waves in stretched strings
Solving the wave equation
Plane waves
Spherical waves
Standing Waves
Polarization
Natural Radiation
Producing polarized light
Dichroism or selective absorption
Scattering
Reflection
Birefringence or double refraction
Quarter wave plate
Partially polarized light
Wave-particle duality
The Compton effect
The wave nature of particles
Interpreting the electron wave
An experiment with bullets
An experiment with waves.
An experiment with electrons
Probability amplitude
Probability
Quantum Mechanics
The Laws of Quantum Mechanics
Particle in a potential.
In Classical Mechanics
Step potentials
Particle in a box
Tunnelling
Scanning Tunnelling Microscope
Physics 1st Year 2009-01-06