Module 3.1     WAVES

Ian Cooper
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1.   VIBRATIONS and SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION


2.   The language Describing Wave Motion


3.   Travelling Waves: Transverse and Longitudinal Waves


4.   RESONANCE and NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF VIBRATION


5.   ENERGY, INTENSITY and SOUND WAVES


6.   REFLECTION and REFRACTION


7.   Ray Model of Light: Reflection, Refraction, Dispersion


8.   Ray Model of Light: Image formation - MIRRORS


9.   Ray Model of Light: Image formation - THIN LENSES, CONVERGING LENSES


10.   Ray Model of Light: Image formation - DIVERGING LENSES, OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS


11.   SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLES: Huygens' Principal, Diffraction and Interference


12.   SINGLE SLIT DIFFRACTION


13.   INTERFERENCE: YOUNG'S DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT


14.   DIFFRACTION GRATINGS


15.   MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: STRINGS


16.   RESONANCE: Forced vibrations of a string


17.   MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: PIPES


18.   BEATS: INTERFERENCE IN TIME


19.   DOPPLER EFFECT: MOTION RELATED FREQUENCY CHANGES

•           EXERCISES and PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES