A Course in Classical Physics 4 - Waves and Light

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bettini, Alessandro
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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