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Experimental set-up for an experiment on Liquid Prisms. (Image adapted from 8.03 take-home experiments.)
Prof. Nergis Mavalvala
Prof. Thomas Greytak
8.03
Spring 2003
Undergraduate
Mechanical vibrations and waves, simple harmonic motion, superposition, forced vibrations and resonance, coupled oscillations and normal modes, vibrations of continuous systems, reflection and refraction, phase and group velocity. Optics, wave solutions to Maxwell's equations, polarization, Snell's law, interference, Huygens's principle, Fraunhofer diffraction, and gratings.
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