Important Announcement: New Course - PHYS 210 (NS 214)
Duyuru : Yeni Ders – New Course
PHYS 210 (NS 214)
Oscillations, Waves and Optics – Titreşimler, Dalgalar ve Optik –
3
credits. Instructor: Ali
Alpar
I will be offering a new course. This
course is for second year FENS students who have not yet declared their major,
as well as 3rd and 4th year students. The course is open to registration as
PHYS 210.
This course will provide the basic
physics of linear oscillations and waves, and serve as a common
interdisciplinary introduction to applications in different areas of science
and engineering. It will also be a basic optics course. The mathematical
content will supply examples for our Mathematics faculty courses, Linear
Algebra and Differential Equations, on a unified physics basis as well as the
use of complex numbers and Fourier analysis with examples from the science of
linear systems, waves and optics.
The course will serve the needs of the
general 2nd year and later FENS student, and will be an important addition for
elective courses for the Physics Minor program.
The course will start from the linear
response of systems close to stable equilibrium. The physics and mathematics of
linear systems will be studied with examples from different kinds of systems,
their oscillations and wave modes.
Textbook: Crawford- “Waves” - Berkeley Physics Course Vol.III
Course Contents:
Linear oscillators. Coupled oscillators and
normal modes with mechanical and electromagnetic examples. Inertia, restoring
force and damping. Driven systems and resonance. The continuum limit. Waves and
wave equations. Dispersion relations. Phase. Interference and diffraction. Wave
packets. Impedance, reflection, absorption and transmission. Polarization.
Geometrical optics. Brief introduction to nonlinearity.
Ders İçeriği:
Çizgisel osilatörler.
Birbirine bağlı osilatör sistemleri, mekanik ve elektromanyetik örnekleri ile
normal titreşim kipleri. Eylemsizlik, geri getirme kuvveti ve sönüm. Uyarılan
sistemler ve rezonans. Sürekli ortam. Dalgalar ve dalga denklemi. Faz. Girişim ve kırınım. Dalga paketleri.
Empedans, yansıma, soğurma ve geçirme.
Polarizasyon. Geometrik optik. Çizgisel olmayan sistemlere kısa giriş.
First meeting: Monday Feb
14, 15:40, FENS G015: Please come to the first meeting - a new class schedule
may be arranged if many people have conflicts.
For more information please
contact me- alpar@sabanciuniv.edu, tel . 9510