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Course Description

In addition to the traditional topics of mechanical vibrations and waves, coupled oscillators, and electro-magnetic radiation, this course also discusses musical instruments, red sunsets, glories, coronae, rainbows, haloes, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, black holes and big-bang cosmology.

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$Boundary Conditions for Dielectrics, Index of Refraction, Snell's Law, and Total Internal Reflection$

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Huygens' Principle, Interference, and Thin Films

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$Diffraction, Grating, Pin Holes, and Angular Resolution$

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