Tag: harmonic waves
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Waves
Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – XII and – XIII “Traveling waves, Differential wave equations, Particle and wave velocities.” In one of our earlier optics session lecture I had hinted at having waves defined by their pulse shape called as wave profile — or alternatively wave shape or wave form, and transcribing them into forms that…
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Spherical harmonic waves
In our lecture — VIII, we worked out the form of plane harmonic traveling waves. Note that soon we will have to a. address the concept of wave profile and b. how to convert a wave profile into its corresponding time-dependent or traveling form. But before we do that here is yet another general form of…
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Harmonic plane waves
Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – VIII. “Harmonic Plane Waves” This lecture ( 1.5 hours ) was delivered on 13th February 2017 to honors students In our last lecture ( lecture — VII ) we began by discussing what are electromagnetic waves. We also discussed in good detail what are harmonic waves. Harmonic waves are those waves…