NS 214 - Oscillations, Waves and Optics – New Course, NEW CODE

NS 214 - Oscillations, Waves and Optics –
New Course, NEW CODE

Oscillations, Waves and Optics – Titreşimler, Dalgalar ve Optik –

3
credits. Instructor: Ali
Alpar

This is a new  course  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 NS 214.

NOTE THAT THE COURSE CODE HAS CHANGED
FROM PHYS 210 TO NS 214

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.

For more information please
contact Ali Alpar at  alpar@sabanciuniv.edu, tel . 9510