PHY138 – Last Waves Lecture
Quarter Review, including:
Simple Harmonic Motion
Mass on spring / Simple pendulum
Wave Motion
Waves on a string / Sound Waves
Doppler Effect
Interference Effects
Standing Waves / Beats
Light, Index of refraction
Reflection, Refraction
Lenses
Reading Assignment for next
year
Please read the following from Serway
and Jewett before class on January 3,
2005: Chapter 19, Sections 19.2-19.6
A Web-CT quiz is due on the Monday
morning of January 3 before class, which
tests your basic familiarity with Chapter 19
assigned reading.
This quiz is available today!
On Friday…
It is mandatory that you go to the room
assigned to your tutorial group.
The test should start at 9:00 sharp.
You should have no communication device
(phone, pager, etc.) within your reach or
field of vision during the test.
The test has eight equally weighted
multiple-choice questions (8 marks each).
The test has one multi-part problem
counting for 36 marks; show your work.
Don’t forget…
Your student card.
A non-programmable calculator without
text storage and communication capability.
A single original, handwritten 8 1/2 × 11
inch sheet of paper on which you have
written anything you wish. We will supply
any numerical constants you might need.
A dark-black, soft-lead 2B or 2HB pencil
with an eraser.
Some more words to the
wise…
A good aid-sheet is well organized, easy to
read, and contains all the major equations
from the assigned sections from the reading.
Detailed specific problem solutions are very
unlikely to help. But feel free!!
Be ready to think; get a good night’s sleep on
Thursday.
Keep in mind: Your best 3 out of 4 tests will
count for 30% of your mark in the course.
Chapter 12: Simple
Harmonic Motion
12.1-12.3: Mass on a spring, x, v, a,
energy
12.4: The Simple Pendulum
12.7: Resonance. Only basic ideas from
this section are important; not details of
the equations.
Chapter 13: Mechanical
Waves
13.1-13.3: Description of waves, including
the traveling sinusoidal wave.
13.4, 13.5: Transverse waves on a string
13.7: Sound waves
13.8: The Doppler Effect
Sinusoidal Wave snapshot
k=2π/λ
Sinusoidal Wave at a point in
space
ω=2π/T
Chapter 14: Superposition of
Waves: Interference, Standing
Waves,
14.1: TheBeats
Principle of Superposition
14.2: Interference
14.3-14.5: Standing Waves
14.6: Beats
Standing Waves
Beats
Chapter 24: Electromagnetic
Waves
24.3: We mostly skipped this section except
for the last 5 paragraphs: Light is a wave in
the E and B fields
24.7: The Electromagnetic Spectrum. You do
not need to memorize this or have it on your
aid sheet; we will provide you with frequency
ranges should they be needed.
24.9: Properties of Lasers. Only a basic
understanding of this section is needed;
ignore the gory details.
Chapter 25: Reflection and
Refraction of Light
25.1-25.3: Rays and the Law of Reflection
25.4: Snell’s Law of Refraction
25.7: Total Internal Reflection
25.8: Optical Fibres: only a basic
understanding of this section is needed;
ignore the gory details.
Total Internal Reflection
Chapter 26: Image Formation
by Mirrors and Lenses
26.1: Images Formed by Flat Mirrors
26.4: The Thin Lens Equation
26.5, 26.6: Lens Aberrations and Medical
Fibrescopes. Only a basic understanding
of these sections are needed; ignore the
gory details
Images in a flat mirror
The Thin Lens Equation
