PHYS 201: Waves and Optics
Fall 2009
Instructor: Jason H. Hafner (Anderson BioLab 302, x3205, hafner@rice.edu)
Meets: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 am, HZ 210
Problem Sets: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Solutions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Videos:die_pulse_die;dynapulse;nondispersive_beats;travel;travel_beats;travel_collision;travel_sin
Calendar
August 24 Simple Harmonic Motion French: p.3-7 Demo: Mass on a Spring |
August 26 Real Oscillators French: p. 45-59 Demo: The Pendulum |
August 28 Real Oscillators continued
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August 31 Superposition French: p.7-27 Demo: Feel the Beat! Problem Set 1 due |
September 2 Damped SHM French: p.62-70 Demo: The Longest Demo |
September 4 Driven SHM French: 83-96 Demo: Mass on a Shim |
September 7 No Class Labor Day
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September 9 Resonance French: 96-110 Demo: More mass on a Shim Problem Set 2 due |
September 11 Coupled SHM French 119-127 Demo: Two Pendulums |
September 14 Continua French: 161-167 Demo: Testing String Theory Problem Set 3 due |
September 16 Continua Continued French 201-209 Demo: Racing the String |
September 18 Fourier Analysis French 189-196 Demo: Barry Manilow's Fourier Components |
September 21 Wave Motion French 213-216 Demo: The Triangular Pulse Problem Set 4 due |
September 23 Dispersion French 230-234 Demo: How to lecture for 50 minutes without a demo |
September 25 Reflection, Absorption, and Transmission French 253-264 Demo: The Wave Machine |
September 28 Exam 1 Review Problem Set 5 due |
September 30 2 Fields and 3 Operations |
October 2 Maxwell's Equations |
October 5 Electromagnetic Wave Equation Exam 1 due |
October 7 Electromagnetic Waves: Plane Pedrotti 100-107 |
October 9 Light Pedrotti 100-107 |
October 12 NO CLASS Midterm Recess |
October 14 Light in a Dielectric Pedrotti 535-543 Demo: UV Absorption Problem Set 6 due |
October 16 Light in a Dielectric II Pedrotti 535-543 Demo: UV Absorption |
October 19 Polarization States Pedrotti 333-341 |
October 21 Light at a Plane Interface Pedrotti 491 - 502 Demo: The Milky Fishtank Problem Set 7 due |
October 23 Manipulating Polarization Pedrotti 491 - 502 Demo: The Headless Physicist |
October 26 Further Manipulation of Polarization Pedrotti 341-347 Demo: Seeing Double with Calcite Problem Set 8 due |
October 28 Huygen's and Fermat's Principles Pedrotti 16-22 |
October 30 Light at a Curved Interface Pedrotti 25-35 |
November 2 Plane Wave Interference Pedrotti 163-169 |
November 4 Young's Double Slit [ppt pdf] Demo: Young's Double Slit Pedrotti 163-175 Problem Set 9 due |
November 6 Thin Film Interference Pedrotti 175-182 Demo: Fancy Filters |
November 9 Interferometry Pedrotti 192-199 Exam 2 due |
November 11 Multiple Beam Interference Pedrotti 184-188 |
November 13 Laser |
November 16 Fraunhofer Diffraction Pedrotti 267-274 Demo: Diffraction from a Slit Problem Set 10 due |
November 18 Diffraction from Apertures Pedrotti 274-279
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November 20 More Apertures Pedrotti 274-279
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November 23 Multiple Slit Diffraction and Gratings [ppt pdf] Pedrotti 281-288 Demo: I love diffraction! |
November 25 Diffraction and Image Formation [ppt pdf] Pedrotti 279-281 Demo: Fourier transforms at the speed of light Problem Set 11 due |
November 27 NO CLASS Thanksgiving |
November 30
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December 2 Scattering [ppt pdf] Demo: The Milky Sky |
December 4 Quantum Optics [ppt pdf] Problem Set 12 due |