Notes for Waves

Abstract

Copyright c © 1995 by David N. Williams. These notes may be freely copied by students and teachers for their personal, noncommercial use. Otherwise, all rights are reserved. The notes contain an independent treatment of much of the material in Serway, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, third edition updated version, Chapter 16, and Chapter 18, §§1-3. They are intended as a review of wave concepts relevant for sophomore level special relativity and quantum mechanics, not as a systematic development. They were used in Physics 242, Introduction to Modern Physics, at the University of Michigan in the Fall ’95 term.