ELEG240 PHYSICAL ELECTRONICS

- University of Delaware -

SPRING 2008

Instructor: Prof. Ian Appelbaum

Office Hours: Anytime at 217C Evans

Phone: x3295

email: appelbaum at ee.udel.edu

Syllabus

Lecture 1: Complete Orthonormal Basis Sets: Vector and Function Spaces

Lecture 2: Dirac Delta, Fourier Transform, and Gaussian

Lecture 3: Fourier Transform of Gaussian and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Relation

Lecture 4: Modulation Theorem and Oscillators: Linear, Second Order Differential Equations

Lecture 5: Natural Motion, Q-Factor, and Forced Oscillators I

Lecture 6: Forced Oscillators II: Resonance

Lecture 7: Phase Lag and Power Dissipation / Exam Review

Lecture 8: Telegrapher's Equations and D'Alembert solution to homogeneous wave equation

Lecture 9: Separation of Variables and Normal Modes

Lecture 10: Forced Wave on a String and Group Velocity

Lecture 11: Light as a Wave; Diffraction as Spatial Fourier Transform of Aperture

Lecture 12: Two-Slit Apertures: Interference

Lecture 13: Interferometers

Last year's Exam 2 and solutions

Tentative Dates:

HW1: 4/18solution

HW2: 4/28solution

Exam 1: 4/28 solution

HW3: 5/5solution

LAB: week of 5/12-5/16

HW4: 5/19solution

Exam 2: 5/21 and solution

useful Java applets:

FFT lab

wave on a string applet: reflection and boundary conditions

Damped oscillator

Harmonically-forced mass on spring

arbitrary initial conditions on a string

forced wave on string

LINKS:

waves on transmission lines

some good notes

dispersive waves

MIT's wave course

Electron interference movie

Diffraction Notes