Physics of Waves (PH11003)
Semester: Spring 2023-2024
Instructor
Name: Dr. Vishwanath Shukla
Email: vishwanath.shukla@iitkgp.ac.in
Office: C-315, Second Floor, Department of Physics
Lecture schedule: Wednesday: 8 – 10 AM, Room — NR211; Thursday: 10 – 11 AM, Room — NR211
Teaching Assistants
Section 17A: Tuesday: 9 – 10 AM, Room — NR113.
TA: Mr. Sourav Singha. Email: singhasourav000@gmail.com
Section 17B: Tuesday: 9 – 10 AM, Room — NR114.
TA: Mr. Sudipto Bagchi.. Email: bagchi.sudipto2016@gmail.com
Section 18A: Tuesday: 9 – 10 AM, Room — NC121.
TA: Mr. Kazi Pervez Islam. Email: parvezislam405@gmail.com
Section 18B: Tuesday: 9 – 10 AM, Room — NC122.
TA: Mr. Soumya Nandi. Email: soumyanandi57@gmail.com
Additional TAs for Section 17 and 18
Arunava Das. Email: das.aruindia@gmail.com
Suraj Kumar Nayak. Email: surajkumarnayak96@gmail.com
Course content
- Introduction: 1 lecture;
- Oscillations: 9 lectures;
- Waves: 5 lectures;
- Interference: 8 lectures;
- Diffraction: 4 lectures;
- Polarization: 4 lectures;
- Quantum Physics: 7 lectures
Presentation Slides
- Week 1, Dates: 03 and 04 Jan 2024
- Week 2, Dates: 10 and 11 Jan 2024
- Week 3, Dates: 17 and 18 Jan 2024
- Week 4, Dates: 24 and 25 Jan 2024
- Week 5, Dates: 31Jan and 01 Feb 2024
- Week 6, Dates: 07 and 08 Feb 2024
- Week 7, Dates: 28 and 29 Feb 2024 (Prof. B M Manoj, slides emailed)
- Week 8, Dates: 6 and 7 Mar 2024
- Week 9, Dates: 14 March 2024
- Week 10, Dates: 20 and 21 March 2024
- Week 11, Dates: 27 and 28 March 2024
- Week 12, Dates: 3 and 4 April 2024
- Week 13, Dates: 8 and 10 April 2024
Lecture slides from Week 1-5 borrow directly from the book by Vibrations and Waves by A P French. Lecture slides for the Week 5-6 can be complemented by reading appropriate sections from the book Waves: Berkeley Physics Course by F. Crawford. Moreover, these lecture slides very frequently borrow slides from those of Prof. Khastgir mention below in the reference section.
Mid-Semester Exam: Up to EM waves
Practice problems and solutions for the Mid-Semester Examination.
References
Tutorial Problems: Lecture Notes & Problem Bank for Physics by R S Saraswat and G P Sastry
NPTEL Course by Prof. S. Bharadwaj and Prof. S P Khastgir (https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/115/105/115105083/)
Books
- Oscillations and Waves: S. Bharadwaj and S P Khastgir
- Vibrations and Waves in Physics by I G Main
- Waves: Berkeley Physics Course by F. Crawford
- Vibrations and Waves by A P French
- Optics by E Hecht
- Fundamentals of Optics by F A Jenkins and H E White
- Physics of Waves by H Georgi