Standard syllabus
Waves & vibrations · Undergraduate · Physics
Topics
Oscillations
- Damped and driven harmonic oscillators
- Resonance, quality factor, and bandwidth
- Coupled oscillators and beating
- Fourier series for periodic forcing
- Physical pendulums and torsional systems
Continuous waves
- Wave equation on strings and membranes
- Boundary conditions and standing waves
- Dispersion relations and group velocity
- Sound waves in fluids and solids
- Doppler effect and shock waves (intro)
Advanced wave phenomena
- Impedance and reflection at interfaces
- Wave packets and uncertainty relations
- Nonlinear waves and solitons (overview)
- Seismic waves and Earth structure
- Vibrations of bars and plates
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