Description

Oscillators : simple harmonic motion, damped/undamped free oscillation, forced oscillation, multiple spring-mass system with and without coupling Waves : Waves Notions, Wave equation, Progressive and stationary waves, Mathematical description of the propagation of waves, D’Alembert wave equation (with various examples in mechanics
and electricity), Progressive and stationary waves (boundary /periodic conditions, with examples, modes, harmonics), Reflection and refraction at the interface of two media, Fresnel coefficients, Impedance. Limit of plane wave model and need of Wave packet, Superposition of two waves (beat), N waves, continuous limit, Temporal and spatial extension of the wave packet, Phase velocity and group velocity/ dispersion of wave packet. Optics : Interference-Diffraction, Condition of obtention, relative phase difference, Front division and amplitude division, Limit of geometric optics, Diffraction by finite opening, Temporal and spatial coherence, Diffraction by periodic pattern-examples and applications.

Compétences requises

Physics teaching in L0

Compétences visées

Understanding the concept of wave superposition.
 

Bibliographie

1. Physics for scientists and Engineers, Serway, ISBN 10: 0030156548 / ISBN 13: 9780030156540, Edité par Saunders, 1996
   Waves (Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 3), Frank S. Crawford Jr., ISBN 10: 0070048606 / ISBN 13: 9780070048607, Edité par McGraw-Hill 1968-06-01,
   1968

Contacts

Responsable(s) de l'enseignement

• Nathalie Ichter