Physics 273 - Spring 2013 - Prof. Hall
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Week	Date	Lecture Topics	H.J. Pain, 6th Ed.	Smith	Homework Due
1	24-Jan	Course introduction
	25-Jan	Simple Harmonic Oscillator and Small oscillations	1 - 10	1 - 10
2	29-Jan	Complex exponentials	25 - 29	12 - 18
	31-Jan	Forced oscillator	57 - 64		1
	1-Feb	Damped Oscillator, energy, Q factor	37 - 49	64 - 68
3	5-Feb	Forced oscillator with damping	57 - 64, 74	84 - 93
	7-Feb	Transients	57 - 64, 74	101 - 103	2
	8-Feb	LC and RLC circuit	10 - 12, 54 - 56	10 - 11, 104 - 105
4	12-Feb	Phasors	54 - 56	18 - 23
	14-Feb	Electrical impedance	54 - 56	18 - 23	3
	15-Feb	Phys 273H section meeting
5	19-Feb	Two coupled oscillators	79 - 87	139 - 152
	21-Feb	Two coupled oscillators	79 - 87	139 - 152	4
	22-Feb	Two coupled oscillators	79 - 87	139 - 152
6	26-Feb	exam review
	28-Feb	Exam 1
	1-Mar	Loaded string, Fourier's trick	90 - 95	216 - 227
7	5-Mar	Loaded string, Fourier's trick	90 - 95	216 - 227
	7-Mar	Normal modes, eigenvectors, initial conditions	79 - 87	139 - 152	5
	8-Mar	Phys 273H section meeting
8	12-Mar	Wave Equation	95 - 97	280 - 284, 230 - 231
	14-Mar	Wave Equation and Fourier's Trick	95 - 97	231 - 235	6
	15-Mar	Orthogonal functions	267 - 275	246 - 254
9	26-Mar	Fourier series	267 - 275	246 - 254
	28-Mar	Fourier transform	285 - 287	254 - 258	7
	29-Mar	Travelling waves	107 - 287	284 - 287
10	2-Apr	Mechanical impedance	115 - 117	352 - 356
	4-Apr	Transmission and reflection	117 - 124	352 - 356	8
	5-Apr	Energy transport	117 - 124	317
11	9-Apr	Transmission lines	171 - 182	301 - 304
	11-Apr	Dispersion	128 - 132	323 - 331	9
	12-Apr	Group velocity, pulse propagation	128 - 132	323 - 331, 388 - 392
12	16-Apr	exam review
	18-Apr	Exam 2
	19-Apr	Interference and Diffraction	333-339, 357-359, 366-373
13	23-Apr	Interference and Diffraction	333-339, 357-359, 366-373
	25-Apr	Maxwell's Eqs., EM waves		287 - 292	10
	26-Apr	Phys 273H section meeting
14	30-Apr	Differential vector calculus		287 - 292
	2-May	Differential vector calculus		287 - 292	11
	3-May	EM waves		287 - 292
15	7-May	EM waves		287 - 292
	9-May	Last day of classes - exam review			12
16	13-May	Final Exam - 8:00 am - 10:00 am