Subsections
[Cr:3, Lc:2, Tt:1, Lb:0]
- Mechanical Waves. Review of oscillators and systems of coupled
oscillators. Waves on a string and membrane. Waves in an elastic
medium: Pressure waves and shear waves. Acoustic resonators. Speed of
a wave and wave impedance, shock waves.
- Electromagnetic waves: Review of Maxwell's equations. Wave solutions
to Maxwell's equations. Energy and momentum of electromagnetic
radiation. Poynting theorem and conservation laws.
- Reflection and refraction of waves from interfaces. Fresnel
Coefficients. Interference of light: interferometers and devices based
on two-beam interference.
- Diffraction of light: Scalar wave approximation. Kirchoff integral,
Kirchoff-Fresnel boundary conditions. Fraunhoffer diffraction, Babinet
principle, diffraction gratings.
- Lorentz model for dispersive media. Pulse propagation in a dispersive
medium.
- Coherence theory: basic ideas of coherence. Temporal coherence,
bandwidth of light. Spatial coherence, basic ideas of intensity
correlations.
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Physics series), CBS Publishers and distributers, New Delhi (1987).
- H. J. Pain, The physics of vibration and waves, 6th edition,
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- E. Hecht, Optics, 4th edition, Pearson Education Inc., New Delhi
(2007).
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Special Indian Ed., Tata McGraw Hill Co. New Delhi (2008).
- M. V. Klein and T. E. Furtak Optics, 2nd edition, Wiley (1986).
