Course Content

Free oscillations of systems with one and two degrees of freedom, Linearity and the superposition principle, Anharmonic vibrations - symmetric and asymmetric return force, Transverse modes of continuous string, Modes of a noncontinuous system with N degrees of freedom, General motion of continuous string and Fourier analysis, Energy density of a continuous string, Wave equation in one dimension, Harmonic wave solution, Three-dimensional wave equation, Wave equation for electromagnetic (EM) waves in vacuum, Transverse monochromatic plane EM waves, Energy and intensity carried by EM waves, Propagation of EM waves in dielectric media, Reflection and transmission of EM waves at an interface, Snell's laws of reflection and refraction, Fresnel's equations, Brewster's angle, Linearly and circularly polarized light, Jones vectors and Jones matrices, Polarizers, Malus's law

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