Preface CHAPTER 1 Simple Harmonic Oscillation 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Mass on Spring 1.3 Simple Harmonic Oscillator Equation 1.4 LC Circuit 1.5 Simple Pendulum 1.6 Compound Pendulum Exercises CHAPTER 2 Damped and Driven Harmonic Oscillation 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Damped Harmonic Oscillation 2.3 Quality Factor 2.4 LCR Circuit 2.5 Driven Damped Harmonic Oscillation 2.6 Driven LCR Circuit 2.7 Transient Oscillator Response Exercises CHAPTER 3 Coupled Oscillations 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Two Spring-Coupled Masses 3.3 Two Coupled LC Circuits 3.4 Three Spring-Coupled Masses Exercises CHAPTER 4 Transverse Standing Waves 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Normal Modes of Beaded String 4.3 Normal Modes of Uniform String 4.4 General Time Evolution of Uniform String Exercises CHAPTER 5 Longitudinal Standing Waves 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Spring-Coupled Masses 5.3 Longitudinal Waves on Thin Elastic Rod 5.4 Sound Waves in Ideal Gas 5.5 Fourier Analysis Exercises CHAPTER6 Traveling Waves 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Standing Waves in Finite Continuous Medium 6.3 Traveling Waves in Infinite Continuous Medium 6.4 Wave Interference 6.5 Energy Conservation 6.6 Transmission Lines 6.7 Normal Reflection and Transmission at Interfaces 6.8 Electromagnetic Waves 6.9 Doppler Effect 6.10 Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media Exercises CHAPTER 7 Multi-Dimensional Waves 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Plane Waves 7.3 Three-Dimensional Wave Equation 7.4 Cylindrical Waves 7.5 Spherical Waves 7.6 Oscillation of an Elastic Sheet 7.7 Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves 7.8 Laws of Geometric Optics 7.9 Fresnel Relations 7.10 Total Internal Reflection 7.11 Birefringence 7.12 Sound Waves in Fluids Exercises CHAPTER 8 Wave Pulses 8. l Introduction 8.2 Fourier Transforms 8.3 Dirac Delta Function 8.4 General Solution of 1D Wave Equation 8.5 Bandwidth 8.6 Bandwidth Theorem Exercises CHAPTER 9 Dispersive Waves 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Pulse Propagation 9.3 Electromagnetic Waves in Unmagnetized Plasmas 9.4 Faraday Rotation 95 Electromagnetic Waves in Magnetized Plasmas 9.6 Low-Frequency EM Waves in Magnetized Plasmas 9.7 Parallel EM Waves in Magnetized Plasmas 9.8 Perpendicular EM Waves in Magnetized Plasmas 9.9 Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors 9.10 Waveguides 9.11 Pulse Propagation in Two Dimensions 9.12 Giavity Waves 9.13 Wave Drag on Ships 9.14 Ship Wakes 9.15 Capillary Waves Exercises CHAPTER 10 Wave Optics 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Two-Slit Interference 10.3 Coherence 10.4 Multi-Slit Interference 10.5 Thin-Film Interference 10.6 One-Dimensional Fourier Optics 10.7 Single-Slit Diffraction 10.8 Multi-Slit Diffraction 10.9 Two-Dimensional Fourier Optics 10.10 Huygens-Fresnel Principle 10.11 Babinet's Principle 10.12 Diffraction from Rectangular Aperture 10.13 Diffraction from Straight Edge 10.14 Diffraction from Rectangular Slit 10.15 Diffraction from Straight Wire 10.16 Diffraction from Circular Aperture 10.17 Diffraction from Circular Disk Exercises CHAPTER 11 Wave Mechanics ll.l Introduction 11.2 Photoelectric Effect 11.3 Electron Diffraction 11.4 Representation of Waves via Complex Numbers 11.5 Schrtidinger's Equation 11.6 Probability Interpretation of Wavefunction 11.7 Wave Packets 11.8 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle 11.9 Wavefunction Collapse 11.10 Stationary States 11.11 Particle in Finite Square Potential Well 11.12 Square Potential Barrier 11.13 WKB Approximation 11.14 Cold Emission 11.15 Alpha Decay 11.16 Three-Dimensional Wave Mechanics 11.17 Particle in Box 11.18 Degenerate Electron Gas 11.19 White-Dwarf Star Exercises Bibliography Index ��݋��ӛ