Physics 12a Assignments, 2009

Reading assignments are from Crawford Waves, except for optional/recommended readings assigned in class. Homework assignments are from Crawford Waves, unless explicitly noted otherwise.

Week

Date

Lecture

Reading Assignment

HW Assignment

 

10

11/30 - 12/4

 

Interference and Diffraction

 

Chapter 9

(through 9.6)

 

 

9

 


11/23-11/25

 

Optical communication


Class Handouts

 


8


11/16-11/20

 

Modulation, Pulses and Wave Packets

 

 

Chapter 6

6.14, 6.18, 6.19, 6.21, 6.24

Due: 5PM, Wednesday, November 25

Solutions: PDF


7


11/9-11/13


Traveling Waves, Reflection


Chapter 5

5.5, 5.6, 5.22, 5.28
Due: 5PM, Thursday November 19

Solutions: PDF

 

6


11/2-11/6


Traveling Waves

 


Chapter 4

 

4.7, 4.8, 4.11, 4.14 (parts a&b), 4.15, 4.31

Due: 5PM, Thursday November 12

Solutions: PDF

 

5

 

10/26-10/30

Coupled Oscillations - Molecules & Neutrinos

Traveling Waves

 

Chapter 4

No homework problems for

Thursday November 5

 


4


10/19-10/23


Forced Oscillations; LIGO


Chapter 3

3.19, 3.30, 3.31 and 3.32
Due: 5PM, Thursday October 29
Solutions: PDF

3

 

10/12-10/16


Oscillations with N degrees of freedom

Fourier series

 

Chapter 2

2.30, 2.35, 3.6, 3.10 and 3.21
Due: 5PM, Thursday October 22
Solutions: PDF

2

10/5-10/9

 

Free Oscillations of Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom

Chapter 2

2.12, 2.13, 2.26 (only through the dispersion relation) and 2.27

and this attached extra problem: PDF
Due: 5PM, Thursday October 15
Solutions: PDF

1

9/28-10/2

 

Free Oscillations of Simple Systems

 

Chapters 1

1.15, 1.16, 1.24, 1.25
Due: 5 PM, Thursday, October 8
Solutions: PDF

 

Last update: 19 November 2009 by H. J. Kimble