8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves (Fall 2004, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Walter Lewin. In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electromagnetic radiation, other interesting topics are covered in this course: musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.
| Lecture 01 - Periodic Phenomena, SHO, Complex Notation, Physical Pendulum |
| Lecture 02 - Beats, Damped Free Oscillations, Quality Q |
| Lecture 03 - Driven Oscillations With Damping, Steady State Solutions, Resonance |
| Lecture 04 - Forced Oscillations, Power at Resonance, Transient Phenomena |
| Lecture 05 - Coupled Oscillators, Resonance Frequencies, Superposition of Modes |
| Lecture 06 - Driven Coupled Oscillators, Steady State & Transient Solutions |
| Lecture 07 - Many Coupled Oscillators, Wave Equation, Transverse Traveling Waves |
| Lecture 08 - Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Longitudinal Waves, Energy in Waves |
| Lecture 09 - Sound Cavities, Resonance Frequencies, Musical Instruments |
| Lecture 10 - Exam 1 Review, Breaking Wine Glass with Sound |
| Lecture 11 - Fourier Analysis, Time Evolution of Pulses on Strings |
| Lecture 12 - Dispersion, Phase Velocity, Group Velocity |
| Lecture 13 - Electromagnetic Waves, Solutions to Maxwell's Equations, Polarization |
| Lecture 14 - Accelerated Charges, Poynting Vector, Power, Rayleigh Scattering |
| Lecture 15 - Doppler Effect, EM Radiation and Expanding Universe |
| Lecture 16 - Standing EM Waves, Reflection, Transmission Lines, Radiation Pressure |
| Lecture 17 - Waveguides, Resonance Cavities of EM-radiation and Sound |
| Lecture 18 - Index of Refraction, Reflection, Fresnel Equations, Brewster Angle |
| Lecture 19 - Exam 2 Review |
| Lecture 20 - Interference, Huygens' Principle, Thin films, Double Slit Demo |
| Lecture 21 - Diffraction, Gratings, Spectral & Angular Resolution, Human Eye |
| Lecture 22 - Rainbows, Haloes, Coronae, Glories |
| Lecture 23 - Farewell Lecture |
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8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves
In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electromagnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, etc.
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