Waves and Oscillations Online Course

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate student in Waves and Oscillations.

About the course:

This is a first course on the physics of waves and oscillations.
All of our communication gadgets, musical instruments, electronic devices rely on wave phenomena.
In this course, systematic theoretical background to the understanding of wave phenomenon in a wide spectrum of applications will be covered. Emphasis is placed on how theoretical ideas are applied in practice.

Course Layout:

Week 1: Oscillations in physical systems, Time period and frequency, Harmonic oscillator in one-dimension and its solutions, Superposition of simple harmonic oscillations, Liss1ajous figures.
Week 2: Damped harmonic oscillations and its solutions. Driven and damped oscillator and its solutions. Applications to vibration isolation.
Week 3: Impedance, Displacement and velocity resonance, Q-factor of the oscillator.
Week 4: Coupled oscillations, Normal modes and frequencies.
Week 5: Coupled oscillations of loaded string, Solvable examples of coupled oscillations.
Week 6: Wave equation and the transverse waves, Solutions of wave equation, Velocities in wave motion.
Week 7: Standing waves, Reflection and transmission of waves at a boundary, Impedance matching.
Week 8: Longitudinal waves, Sound waves in gases, Longitudinal waves in a solid, Application to periodic structures and earthquakes. Experimental techniques to measure speed of sound.
Week 9: Fourier analysis, Wave pulses, Applications of Fourier analysis.
Week 10: Waves in optical systems, Laws of reflection and refraction, Rays and wave fronts.
Week 11: Interference and Diffraction, Newton's rings, Fabry-Perot Interferometer, Fraunhofer diffraction.
Week 12: Introduction to nonlinear oscillations, Waves and solitons.

Duration: 12 weeks
Enrollment Ends: July 27, 2020

Exam Date: October 17, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_ph22/preview