Physics I - Oscillations and Waves

Overview

Instructor: Professor S. Bharadwaj, Department of Physics and Meteorology, IIT Kharagpur.

This course covers lessons in simple harmonic oscillators, resonance, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum, interference, coherence, diffraction, standing waves, polarization, wave-particle duality, Schrodinger wave equation, particle in a potential, potential well and quantum tunneling.

Syllabus

Lecture - 1 Simple Harmonic Oscillators.
Lecture - 2 Damped Oscillator - I.
Lecture - 3 Damped Oscillator - II.
Lecture - 4 Oscillator With External Forcing - I.
Lecture - 5 Oscillator With External Forcing.
Lecture - 6 Resonance.
Lecture - 7 Coupled Oscillations.
Lecture - 8 Sinusoidal Plane Waves - I.
Lecture - 9 Electromagnetic waves - I.
Lecture - 10 Electromagnetic Waves - II.
Lecture - 11 The Vector Nature of Electromagnetic Waves.
Lecture - 12 The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Lecture - 13 The Electromagnetic Spectrum - II.
Lecture - 14 Interference - I.
Lecture - 15 Interference - II.
Lecture - 16 Interference - III.
Lecture - 17 Interference - IV.
Lecture - 18 Coherence.
Lecture - 19 Coherence.
Lecture - 20 Diffraction - I.
Lecture - 21 Diffraction - II.
Lecture - 22 Diffraction - III.
Lecture - 23 Diffraction - IV.
Lecture - 24 X-Ray Diffraction.
Lecture - 25 Beats.
Lecture - 26 The Wave Equation.
Lecture - 27 Solving the Wave Equation.
Lecture - 28 Waves.
Lecture - 29 Standing Waves.
Lecture - 30 Standing Waves.
Lecture - 31 Polarization.
Lecture - 32 Compton Effect.
Lecture - 33 Wave - Particle Duality.
Lecture - 34 Wave - Particle Duality.
Lecture - 35 Probability Amplitude.
Lecture - 36 Probability.
Lecture - 37 Schrodinger Wave Equation.
Lecture - 38 Measurements.
Lecture - 39 Particle in a Potential.
Lecture - 40 Potential Well.
Lecture - 41 Potential Well.
Lecture - 42 Potential Well.
Lecture - 43 Quantum Tunneling.
Lecture - 44 Quantum Tunneling.