| Week |
Subject |
Recomended Reading |
| 1 |
Free oscillations of simple systems |
Waves - Berkeley : Chapter 1 |
| 2 |
Free Oscillations of two degrees of Freedom, Beats |
Waves - Berkeley : Chapter 1 |
| 3 |
Free Oscillations of Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom |
Waves - Berkeley : Chapter 2 |
| 4 |
Travelling waves, Phase velocity, Snell |
Waves - Berkeley : Chapter 4 |
| 5 |
Reflection and Transmission, Pulses, Group velocity
Fourier transform, Interference |
Waves - Berkeley : Chapter 5-6,9 |
| 6-7 |
Towards Quantum Mechanics: Photo-electric effect, Compton Effect, the uncertainty principle, wave -packets. |
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| 8-9 |
The Schroedinger equation, probability interpretation. 1-dimensional potentials and scattering |
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| 10-11 |
Quantum formalism: operators, eigen-values and expectation values.
The atomic structure, spin and the periodic table. |
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| 12-13 |
Special Relativity |
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