Oscillations and Waves
2021-04-30
Welcome
Welcome to the course notes for the Oscillations and Waves component of PHYS10005, Core Physics II.
The most recent version of these notes can be found at https://awmckinley1.github.io/osc-waves1
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Course history
This iteration of the course has been written for the academic year 2020/21 by Andrew McKinley. This has been based extensively on previous course notes by Ben Maughan, Simon Hanna and Massimo Antognozzi.
Changelog
2021-03-16 Updated to fix images in chapters 17 and 18.
2021-03-16 Updated to address image problems in chapters 14-16. These should (hopefully!) now be working!
2021-03-07 Updated to address error reports, added additional detail for figures in Chapter 11, and including images for chapter 13
2021-02-14 Updated to address error reports, and to include images and additional explanations for Chapters 10 and 11.
2021-02-12 Updated to address error reports 1-13. Thank you all who sent them in.
2021-01-27 Initial commit to GitHub; all text for the course complete, some images pending.
2020-09-16 Initial versioning and inclusion of course material.