Review of Oscillations / 1.: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Mass-Spring System / 1.2: |
Energy Tossing in Mechanical Oscillations / 1.3: |
Other Mechanical Oscillation Systems / 1.4: |
Electromagnetic Oscillation / 1.5: |
Damped Oscillation / 1.6: |
Forced Oscillation / 1.7: |
Wave Motion / 2.: |
Creation of Waves on a String / 2.1: |
Sinusoidal (Harmonic) Waves / 2.3: |
Wave Differential Equation, Partial Differentiation / 2.4: |
Nonsinusoidal Waves / 2.5: |
Phase and Group Velocities, Dispersion / 2.6: |
Superposition of Two Waves, Beats / 2.7: |
Some Mathematics / 3.: |
Mechanical Waves / 4.: |
Mass-Spring Transmission Line / 4.1: |
Derivation of Wave Equation / 4.3: |
Energy Carried by Waves / 4.4: |
Momentum Carried by Waves / 4.5: |
Transverse Waves on a String / 4.6: |
Sound Waves in Solids, Liquids, and Gases / 5.: |
Sound Velocity Along a Solid Rod / 5.1: |
Rigorous Derivation of Sound Velocity Along a Solid Rod / 5.3: |
Sound Waves in Liquids / 5.4: |
Sound Waves in Gases / 5.5: |
Intensity of Sound Waves in Gases / 5.6: |
Wave Reflection and Standing Waves / 6.: |
Reflection at a Fixed Boundary, Standing Waves / 6.1: |
Reflection at a Free Boundary / 6.3: |
Theory of Wave Reflection, Mechanical Impedance / 6.4: |
Spherical and Cylindrical Waves; Waves in Nonuniform Media, and Multidimensional Waves / 7.: |
Conservation of Energy Flow, Spherical Waves / 7.1: |
Cylindrical Waves / 7.3: |
Nonuniform Wave Medium / 7.4: |
Multidimensional Waves / 7.5: |
Doppler Effect of Sound Waves and Shock Waves / 8.: |
Stationary Sound Source and Moving Observer / 8.1: |
Moving Sound Source and Stationary Observer / 8.3: |
General Expression for Doppler-Shifted Frequency / 8.4: |
Shock Waves / 8.5: |
Electromagnetic Waves / 9.: |
Wave Equation for an LC Transmission Line / 9.1: |
Coaxial Cable / 9.3: |
Poynting Vector / 9.4: |
Plane Electromagnetic Waves in Free Space / 9.5: |
Reflection of Electromagnetic Waves / 9.6: |
Electromagnetic Waves in Matter / 9.7: |
Radiation of Electromagnetic Waves / 10.: |
Fields Associated with Stationary Charge and Charge Moving with a Constant Velocity / 10.1: |
Radiation Fields Due to an Accelerated (or Decelerated) Charge / 10.3: |
Radiation from an Oscillating Dipole and Dipole Antenna / 10.4: |
Interference and Diffraction / 11.: |
Interference Between Two Harmonic Waves / 11.1: |
Young's Experiment / 11.3: |
Multislit Structure / 11.4: |
Optical Interference in Thin Films / 11.5: |
Diffraction I (Fraunhofer diffraction) / 11.6: |
Resolution of Optical Devices / 11.7: |
Diffraction II (Fresnel diffraction) / 11.8: |
Geometrical Optics / 12.: |
Reflection and Refraction / 12.1: |
Total Reflection / 12.3: |
Reflection at Spherical Surfaces (Mirrors) / 12.4: |
Spherical Aberration of Mirrors / 12.5: |
Refraction at Spherical Surfaces / 12.6: |
Lenses / 12.7: |
Chromatic Aberration / 12.8: |
Optical Instruments / 12.9: |
Physical Meaning of Focusing / 12.10: |
Fourier Analyses and Laplace Transformation / 13.: |
Sum of Harmonic Functions / 13.1: |
Fourier Series / 13.3: |
Fourier Spectrum / 13.4: |
Operator Method / 13.5: |
Laplace Transform / 13.6: |
Particle Nature of Light / 14.: |
Photoelectric Effect and Einstein's Photon Theory / 14.1: |
Hydrogen Atom / 14.3: |
De Broglie Wave / 14.4: |
Nonlinear Waves / 15.: |
Nonlinear Wave Equations / 15.1: |
Characteristics / 15.3: |
Self-Similarity / 15.4: |
Solitons and Shocks / 16.: |
FPU Recurrence / 16.1: |
Properties of Solitons / 16.3: |
Shocks / 16.4: |
Appendix A |
Appendix B |
Bibliography |
Index |
Review of Oscillations / 1.: |
Introduction / 1.1: |
Mass-Spring System / 1.2: |
Energy Tossing in Mechanical Oscillations / 1.3: |
Other Mechanical Oscillation Systems / 1.4: |
Electromagnetic Oscillation / 1.5: |