Oscillations and Waves

A complete set of lecture notes for a lower-division undergraduate course on oscillations and waves. Topics covered include simple harmonic oscillation, damped and driven harmonic oscillation, coupled oscillations, standing waves, traveling waves, wave pulses, dispersive waves, wave optics, and wave mechanics.

The lecture notes are availible in a number of formats:

[HTML]: A fully hyperlinked HTML document.
[BOOK]: A paperback book based on the lecture notes and published by CRC Press.

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Richard Fitzpatrick

Last modified: Mon Apr 8 16:05:08 CDT 2013