Lecture Notes
Lecture 18, Mar 10: Pressure
Classroom activities on light (tutorial type)
Lectures on the single slit diffraction and related topics
Video 4: single slit and double slit, Video 5: realistic double slit
Video 1: basics, Video 2: Babinet’s principle (optional), Video 3: single slit diffraction and the uncertainty principle
Lecture 15: N slit problem (diffraction grating)
Video 1: basics, Video 2: phasor (optional, but highly recommended), Video 3: diffraction grating, Video 4: Bragg diffraction, diffraction intensity
Lectures on the polarization
Lecture 12, Feb 19: Young’s double slit experiment
Lecture 11, Feb 17: Thin lens, Compound optics
Correction: Page 4, in the figure, line 2: “followed by” → “following”.—2:24PM, Feb 17, 2015
Lecture 10, Feb 10: Mirrors
Lecture 9, Feb 5: Light
Lecture 8, Feb 3: Beats, Doppler effect
Lecture 7, Jan 29: Sound
Lecture 6, Jan 27: Waves, Sound (cont.)
Lecture 5, Jan 22: Waves, Sound
Lecture 4, Jan 20: Waves
Lecture 3, Jan 13: SHO, continued
Correction: $>$ → $\ge$ in Eq 3.5.—1:27PM, Jan 12, 2015
Lecture 2, Jan 9: Simple harmonic oscillation (SHO)
Lecture 1, Jan 7: Hooke’s law and SHM
Additions: Right after Eq 1.5, $\ddot x$ is explained. In the Homer box of page 6, $\nu$ is defined.—5:18PM, Jan 06, 2015
Addition: Footnote 3 on the difference between the Frounhofer diffraction and the Fresnel diffraction. Also, a link to footnote 3 added in footnote 1. Youtube video is also updated with two additional annotations regarding this point.—6:30PM, Mar 08, 2015