Lectures (Video)
- 1. Periodic Phenomena
- 2. Beats - Damped Free Oscillations
- 3. Forced Oscillations with Damping
- 4. Forced Oscillations and Resonance
- 5. Coupled Oscillators
- 6. Driven Coupled Oscillators
- 7. Wave Equation
- 8. Traveling and Standing Waves
- 9. Sound Cavities
- 10. Review
- 11. Fourier Analysis
- 12. Dispersion - Phase and Group Velocity
- 13. Electromagnetic Waves
- 14. Poynting Vector and Polarization
- 15. Doppler Effect
- 16. Standing EM Waves
- 17. Wave Guides
- 18. Snell's Law and Fresnel Equations
- 19. Review II
- 20. Huygens' Principle
- 21. Diffraction
- 22. Rainbows
- 23. Special Lecture
Vibrations and Waves
Course Summary
This course is based on 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 2004 made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
This is another course conducted by Prof. Walter Lewin at MIT well-known for his dynamic and engaging teaching style. In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, students will also learn about musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.
Reading Material
1. Textbook: Vibrations and WavesFrench, A. P. Vibrations and Waves. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, January 1, 1971. ISBN: 9780393099362.
(Click the button below to see a preview of another version of the book published by CRC Press)
2. Textbook: Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation
Bekefi and Barrett. Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves and Radiation. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, September 15, 1977. ISBN: 9780262520478.
Course Material
1. AssignmentsProblem sets and solutions from 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 2004 (MIT OCW).
2. Quizzes and exams
Quizzes and exams questions and solutions from 8.03 Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, Fall 2004 (MIT OCW).
Other Resources
1. Lecture slides from a similar course offered by MIT OpenCoursewareThe following are lecture slides from a similar course offered by MIT OpenCourseware - 8.03 Physics III, Spring 2003.
- Introduction to Vibrations and Waves: Course Overview (PDF)
- Simple Harmonic Motion (PDF)
- Harmonically Driven Damped Harmonic Oscillator (PDF)
- Complete Solution to the Harmonically Driven Oscillator(PDF)
- Coupled Oscillators (PDF)
- Driven Coupled Oscillators (PDF)
- The Wave Equation, Solutions to the Wave Equation (PDF)
- Boundary Conditions Applied to Pulses and Waves (PDF)
- Wave Equation in 2D and 3D, Time-independent Fourier Analysis (PDF)
- Fourier Analysis (PDF)
- Fourier Analysis with Traveling Waves, Dispersion (PDF)
- Electromagnetic Wave Equation (PDF)
- Plane polarized EM Waves (PDF)
- Dipole Radiation (PDF)
- EM Waves Meet Conductors, Transmission Lines (PDF)
- EM Waves Meet Conductors, Waveguides (PDF)
- EM Waves Meet Dielectrics (PDF)
- Interference (PDF)
- Interference from Multiple Sources (PDF)
- Diffraction (PDF)
- Diffraction + Interference, Diffraction Gratings (PDF)
2. Experiments from the course 8.03 Physics III Spring 2003
Students are provided with experiment kits and this instruction manual for doing several carefully designed experiments relevant to the course material at home. The purpose of these experiments is to give a first hand knowledge of some of the simple physical phenomena associated with vibrations and waves.
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