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Lecture 19 - Waves

This video was recorded at YALE PHYS 200 - Fundamentals of Physics with Professor Ramamurti Shankar. Waves are discussed in further detail. Basic properties of the waves such as velocity, energy, intensity, and frequency are discussed through a variety of examples. The second half of the lecture deals specifically with superposition of waves. Constructive and destructive interferences are defined and discussed. Reading assignment: Wolfson and Pasachoff, Physics with Modern Physics, chapter 17. Resources: Problem Set 9 [PDF] Problem Set 9 Solutions [PDF]

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: Ramamurti Shankar, Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States