PHYS 143b Honors Waves, Optics, & Heat Spring Quarter, 2021
Quick links: Textbook Canvas ZOOM Piazza LabWiki
Instructor: Cheng Chin
Online discussions: Tu & Th 9:40‐11:00 am CDT on Zoom
Online office hours: Tu & Th 11:15‐12:30 pm CDT on Zoom and Piazza (starting week 2)
Textbooks: Waves by David Morin
Laboratory administrators: Mark Chantell, Dave McCowan
Teaching Assistant Discussion sessions: (starting week 2)
Monday: 3~4:30 pm Tong Ou (Zoom)
Tuesday: 3~4:30 pm Runyu Jiang (Zoom)
Wednesday: 4~5:30 pm Xining Zhang (Zoom)
Homeworks, Lab reports, Midterm and Final:
All homeworks, reports, midterm and final should be submitted to Canvas in the format of pdf or jpg before the deadline. They will be returned to the students on Canvas. Late policy for HWs and Lab reports: -10% per day. Late midterm submission is not allowed.
Grade distribution: HW 30%, Lab 30%, Midterm 20% and Final 20%
Class outline:
| Week | Date | Lecture | Text/Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3/30 |
Lecture 1: Harmonic oscillator 1-1 Introduction (7') 1-2 Differential equation and complex number (20') 1-3 Simple harmonic oscillator (27') 1-4 Damped harmonic oscillator (35') 1-5 Zoom discussion (57') |
Chapter 1.1 and 1.2 |
| 4/1 |
Lecture 2: Driven oscillator (HW1, HW1Sol) 2-1 Solving non-homogeneous ODEs (18') 2-2 Driven oscillator: Amplitude and Phase (29') 2-3 Driven oscillator: Energy Transfer (23') 2-4 Zoom discussion |
Chapter 1.3 | |
| 2 | 4/6 |
Lecture 3: Coupled oscillators 3-1 Coupled oscillators part 1 (36') 3-2 Coupled oscillators part 2 (13') 3-3 Math: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors (22') 3-4 Three coupled oscillators (33') 3-5 Zoom discussion |
Chapter 2.1 and 2.2 |
| 4/8 |
Lecture 4: Normal modes (HW1 due, HW2, HW2Sol) 4-1 N coupled oscillators (39') 4-2 N=5 coupled oscillators (8') |
Chapter 2.3 | |
| 3 | 4/13 |
Lecture 5: Wave equation 5-1 Wave equation (40') 5-2 Solving wave equation (17') |
Chapter 2.4 Lab 1: Speed of Light |
| 4/15 |
Lecture 6: Spectral Analysis (HW2 due, HW3, HW3Sol) 6-1 Fourier Analysis (34') 6-2 Fourier Analysis Examples (20') |
Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | |
| 4 | 4/20 |
Lecture 7: Transverse waves 7-1 Transverse Waves (27') 7-2 Wave Reflection and Transmission (37') |
Chapter 4.1, 4.2 Lab 2: Wave Motion |
| 4/22 |
Lecture 8: Sound waves (HW3 due, HW4, HW4Sol) 8-1 Wave Reflection and Transmission (23') 8-2 Longitudinal waves (28') |
Chapter 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 | |
| 5 | 4/27 |
Lecture 9: Dispersion, Doppler effect and Shock waves 9-1 Dispersion (38') 9-2 Doppler effect and shock waves (29') |
Chapter 6.3, 7.2 Lab 3: Interference |
| 4/29 |
Lecture 10: Electromagneitc waves (HW4 due, HW5, HW5Sol) 10-1 Vector calculus (28') 10-2 EM wave equation (27') Midterm, MidtermSol |
Chapter 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 | |
| 6 | 5/4 |
Lecture 11: Reflection and refraction 11-1 Polarization (25') 11-2 Reflection and transmission (36') 11-3 Refraction (30') |
Chapter 8.6, 8.8 |
| 5/6 |
Lecture 12: Geometrical Optics (HW5 due, HW6, HW6Sol) 12-1 Interface and lens equation (29') 12-2 Applications of geometric optics (25') |
Lab 4: Diffraction | |
| 7 | 5/11 |
Lecture 13: Interference and diffraction 13-1 What is light? (9') 13-2 N-slit interference (35') 13-3 Fourier optics (14') 13-4 Single slit diffraction (17') 13-5 Applications (15') |
Chapter 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
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| 5/13 |
Lecture 14: Ideal gas (HW6 due, HW7, HW7sol) 14-1 Kinetic theory of ideal gas (46') |
Lab 5: Geometric Optics | |
| 8 | 5/18 |
Lecture 15: Heat engines 15-1 Thermodynamic process (35') 15-2 Carnot cycle (43') |
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| 5/20 |
Lecture 16: Laws of thermodynamics (HW7 due, HW8) 16-1 Laws of thermodynamics (50') |
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| 9 | 5/25 |
Lecture 17: Heat transfer 17-1 Heat transfer (21') |
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| 5/27 |
Lecture 18: Entropy (HW8 due, HW8Sol) |
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| 10 | 6/1 | Final FinalSol |
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