BGU Physics Department

Physics 3 for Physicists

(5.0 points, 6 hours)

course number 203-1-2121

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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

1. Waves, F. Crawford (Berkeley series, no. 3)
2. Vibrations and Waves, A. P. French (MIT series)
3. 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

1. Modern Physics, Krane
2. Concepts of Modern Physics, Bei
   

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