Forced Oscillations with Damping
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1. Periodic Phenomena
2. Damped Free Oscillations
3. Forced Oscillations
4. Resonance
5. Coupled Oscillators
6. Triple Pendulum & Cramer's Rule
7. Wave Equation
8. Traveling Waves
9. Sound Cavities & Music
10. Exam 1 Review
11. Fourier Analysis
12. Dispersion & Phase Velocity
13. Malus' Law
14. Accelerated Charges & Power
15. Expanding Universe & Stars
16. Reflection & Standing EM Waves
17. Wave Guides
18. Reflection
19. Exam 2 Review
20. Huygens' Principle & Light
21. Diffraction
22. Rainbows, Coronae & Glories
23. Balloons & X-Ray Astrophysics

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