Waves (Draft)

The following files are a beginning draft of a Waves book designed for college sophomores. The Fourier and Interference chapters are a little more polished than the others. There are certainly typos and things that I will change, but there’s a lot of nice material here as it stands. Chapters on optics and water waves will eventually be added.

Note: This book keeps getting leapfrogged by other ones, so I’m guessing it will be at least 2030 by the time I revisit it and turn it into an actual book.

  1. Oscillations
  2. Normal modes
  3. Fourier analysis
  4. Transverse waves
  5. Longitudinal waves
  6. Dispersion
  7. 2D waves and other topics
  8. Electromagnetic waves
  9. Interference and diffraction
  10. Intro to Quantum Mechanics

Corrections/typos/errata/clarifications

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