Lecture Notes

• Lecture 19, Mar 13: Statics, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 18, Mar 11: Fluid (Pressure)

• Lecture 16, Mar 6: Diffraction (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 15, Feb 25/28: Complex number, Grating

  • Correction: The incorrect label in the fifth panel of the figure in page 13 is now corrected.—12:24PM, Mar 15, 2014

• Lecture 13, Feb 27: Double slit (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 12, Feb 20: Mirrors and lenses

• Lecture 10, Feb 11: Mirrors

• Lecture 9, Feb 6: Doppler effect, Light

• Lecture 8, Feb 4: Beats (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 7, Jan 30: Pressure wave, Standing wave

• Lecture 6, Jan 28: Various topics on waves (in-class quiz)

  • Addition, correction: page 16, footnote 6 (red) and $=\;\rightarrow\; \propto$ (red).—7:41PM, Feb 24, 2014

• Lecture 5, Jan 21: Waves, Sound

• Lecture 4, Jan 16: Waves (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 3, Jan 14: Simple harmonic oscillation (SHO), cont. (in-class quiz)

• Lecture 2, Jan 9: Simple harmonic oscillation (SHO)

  • Correction: The missing $A^2$ inserted in to the middle part of Eq. 2.17. (Thanks J. V.!)—7:03AM, Mar 16, 2014

• Lecture 1, Jan 7: Hooke’s law and SHM

Notable youtube videos

• Tacoma bridge

• Polarization (Microwave)

• Polarization

Appendices

• Hooke’s law—an indepth discussion

• Calculus notations and the true meaning of zero