Physics 1A - BGU Physics Department
BGU Physics Department
Physics 3 for Physicists
(5.0 points, 6 hours)
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Syllabus
Waves
- Free oscillations of simple systems (including linearity and
superposition principle)
- Free oscillations of systems with many degrees of freedom
(including vibrations of a string and Fourier analysis)
- Forced oscillations, resonance
- Travelling waves (including discussion of phase velocity,
dispersion relations and impedance)
- Reflection and transmission
- Modulations, pulses, and wave packets (including group velocity,
pulses, Fourier analysis of wave packets)
- Waves in two and three dimensions
- Polarizations
- Interference and diffruction (including Huygens' Principle,
Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, geometrical optics)
Sources
- Waves, F. Crawford (Berkeley series, no.
3)
- Vibrations and Waves, A.
P. French (MIT series)
- Vibrations
and Waves in Physics, I. G. Main
Introduction to modern physics:
- Black body radiation, photoelectric effect
- Uncertainty principle, duality, de Broglie waves
- Compton scattering, pairs production
- Atom (Ratherford scattering, Bohr model)
- Guest lectures - elementary particles and forces, string theory
and cold atoms
Sources
- Modern
Physics, Krane
- Concepts of Modern Physics,
Bei
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