Waves
Wave motion appears all around us, from water waves and mechanical waves to light, sound and even gravitational waves. Waves can transfer energy from one place to another, and carry information. Many applications of physics are based on controlling and manipulating wave behaviour, and to do this, we first need to understand their properties and characteristic phenomena.
Lesson slides
The lesson slides used were more or less the same as the 2011—2012 course
Notes
In lessons we shall discuss any questions and go through examples mainly. For each lesson, you must either
- hand in a reading memo on paper at the beginning of the lesson, or
- complete an online reading memo via the MIT interface by 9.30 p.m. the evening before the lesson.
- Progressive waves | reading memo | with your annotations
- Polarization | reading memo | with your annotations
- Refraction | reading memo | with your annotations
- Superposition | reading memo | with your annotations
- Interference | reading memo | with your annotations
- Stationary waves | reading memo - broken, investigating...
- Single slit diffraction | reading memo | with your annotations
- The diffraction grating | reading memo | with your annotations
