PHY102 Waves and Matter

2016 Spring Semester

(Approximate number of lectures appear in brackets.)

Oscillations in 1, 2, 3 dimensions, Damped and driven oscillations. Resonances. [7]
Oscillations of continuous string and Fourier analysis. [4]
Travelling waves, pulses and wave packets, phase and group velocity, reflection, refraction and transmission, [4]
Travelling waves, pulses and wave packets, phase and group velocity, reflection, refraction and transmission, [4]
Electromagnetic waves, polarisation, interference and diffraction. [4]
Properties of deformable media, Hooke's law, stress and strain. [4]
Torsion and bending of rods, deflections of rods. [5]

We will mainly follow

Waves, F. S. Crawford, (Berkeley Physics Course, Tata McGraw-Hill Ltd, 2008)
Physics of Waves and Oscillations, H. J. Pain, (Wiley, 2005).
Vibrations and Waves, A. P. French, (MIT Press/CBS Publishers)
Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol II (Addison-Wesley 1963/Narosa 2011)
Mechanics (Lectures on Theoretical Physics Vol 1), Arnold Sommerfeld (Levant Books, Kolkata 2006)

Regularly updated Lecture Notes will be avaliable on this link.

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Every Wednesday at 09:00 hrs and every Thursday at 15:10 hrs in LHC-103

Every Friday at 16:20 hrs in four batches in LHC-103,105,106,108