TOPICS IN SCIENCE 113 WAVES AND OPTICS

1st Semester, AY 2023-2024

Module 1: Periodic Motion

1. Description of oscillation
2. Simple Harmonic Motion
3. Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
4. Applications of simple harmonic motion
5. The simple pendulum
6. Damped oscillations
7. Forced oscillations and resonance.
QUIZ 1 + EXPERIMENT 1

Module 2: Mechanical Waves

1. Types of Mechanical Waves
2. Periodic Waves
3. Mathematical Description of a Wave
4. Speed of a Transverse Wave
5. Energy in Wave Motion
6. Wave Interference, Boundary Conditions, and Superposition
7. Standing waves on a string
8. Normal Modes of a String
QUIZ 2 + EXPERIMENT 2

Module 3: Sound and Hearing

1. Sound waves
2. Speed of Sound Waves
3. Sound Intensity
4. Standing Sound Waves and Normal Modes
5. Resonance and Sound
6. Interference of Waves
7. Beats
8. The Doppler Effect
9. Shock Waves
QUIZ 3 + EXPERIMENT 3

Module 4: The Nature and Propagation of Light

1. The Nature of Light
2. Reflection and Refraction
3. Total Internal Reflection
4. Dispersion
5. Polarization
6. Scattering of Light
7. Huygens’s Principle
QUIZ 4 + EXPERIMENT 4

MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Module 5: Geometric Optics
1. Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Surface
2. Reflection and refraction at a Spherical Surface
3. Thin Lenses
4. Cameras
5. The Human Eye
6. The Magnifier
QUIZ 5 + EXPERIMENT 5

Module 6. Interference
1. Interference and Coherent Sources
2. Two-Source Interference Patterns of Light
3. Intensity in Interference Patterns
4. Interference in Thin Films
5. The Michelson Interferometer
QUIZ 6 + EXPERIMENT 6

Module 7. Diffraction
1. Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction
2. Diffraction from a Single Slit
3. Intensity in the Single-Slit Pattern
4. Multiple Slits
5. The Diffraction Grating
6. X-Ray Diffraction
7. Circular Apertures and Resolving Power
8. Holography
QUIZ 7 + EXPERIMENT 7

FINAL EXAMINATION