A Course in Classical Physics 4 - Waves and Light

• Main Author: Bettini, Alessandro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Acoustics.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

This fourth volume of a four-volume textbook covers the oscillations of systems with one or more degrees of freedom; the concept of waves, focusing on light and sound; phase and group velocities, their physical meaning, and their measurement; diffraction and interference of light; polarization pheno...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Oscillations of systems with one degree of freedom
• 2. Oscillations of systems with several degrees of freedom
• 3. Waves
• 4. Dispersion
• 5. Oscillations of systems with several degrees of freedom
• 6. Polarisation
• 7. Optical images
• 8. Coherent images.