A unified treatment of oscillatory and wave motion, with examples from mechanics, electromagnetism, optics and materials science. Topics include simple harmonic motion, forced oscillations and resonance, coupled oscillations, transverse waves on strings and in crystals, longitudinal waves in gases and solids, electromagnetic waves, Fourier methods, nonlinear oscillations and chaos. Antirequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): Physics 1301A/B or 1401A/B or 1501A/B with a minimum mark of 60% or Physics 1028A/B with a minimum mark of 80%; Physics 1302A/B or 1402A/B or 1502A/B with a minimum mark of 60% or Physics 1029A/B with a minimum mark of 80%, or a minimum mark of 60% in the former Physics 1020 or 1024 or 1026; a minimum mark of 60% in each of (Calculus 1000A/B or 1100A/B or 1500A/B) and (Calculus 1301A/B or 1501A/B), or in Applied Mathematics 1413. Corequisite(s): Pre-or Corequisite(s): Mathematics 1600A/B, or the former Linear Algebra 1600A/B. Extra Information: 3 lecture hours, 2 laboratory/tutorial hours, 0.5 course. back to top
