Lecture Notes

• Lecture 15: N slit problem (diffraction grating)

  • Written lecture

  • Video lecture

• Lectures on the polarization

  1. Antenna

  2. Simple polarizer

  3. Unpolarized beam, Polarizers

  4. Brewster angle

  5. Polarization and QM

• Lecture 12, Feb 19: Young’s double slit experiment

  • Youtube video lecture

• 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