University of
Maryland
Department of Physics
273/273H - Introductory Physics / Waves
Prof. Hall - Fall 2013
- Course Info:
-
Applets and animations:
- David Morin's Oscillations and Waves:
- These nicely written and beautifully typeset lecture notes
match our course material rather well, so I encourage you to
make use of them.
- Oscillations
- Normal
Modes
- Fourier
Analysis
- Transverse
Waves
- Longitudinal
Waves
- Dispersion
- 2D
waves and other topics
- EM
waves
- Interference
and Diffraction
- Intro
to Quantum Mechanics
- Exams
- The final exam will be held on Thursday, December 19th from
8 am to 10 am in Phys 1204.
- The following formula sheets will be included in the exam:
- Hints for studying for the exam:
- Homework:
- Homework #1, and solutions.
- Homework #2, and solutions.
- Homework #3, and solutions.
- Homework #4, and solutions.
- Homework #5, and solutions.
- Homework #6, and solutions.
- Homework #7, and solutions.
- Homework #8, and solutions.
- Homework #9, and solutions.
- Homework #10, and solutions.
- Homework #11, and solutions.
- Homework #12, and solutions.
- Lecture Notes:
- Week 1 - Simple harmonic
oscillator and small oscillations.
- Week 2 - Complex
exponentials, forced oscillator.
- Week 3 - Damped oscillators,
Q factor, transients.
- Week 4 - Electrical
oscillators, phasor analysis.
- Week 5 - Two coupled
oscillators, normal modes, initial conditions.
- Week 6 - Exam 1 review
- Week 7 - Loaded string and
continuous string, classical wave equation.
- Week 8 - Plucked string,
Fourier Series.
- Week 9 - Fourier Transform,
traveling waves.
- Week 10 - Mechanical
impedance, reflection, transmission, transmission lines.
- Week 11 - Dispersion,
sound.
- Week 12 - Exam 2 review.
- Week 13 - Maxwell's
equations, EM waves.
- Week 14 - Interference and
diffraction.
- Week 15 - Final exam review