Physics 3310

Waves and Relativity - Spring 2010

Course Information

• Lecture: MW 9:30-10:50 AM @ rm 157 Fondren Science.
• Lecturer: Professor Thomas E. Coan
• Office hours: Mon & Wed 11:00 AM -12:00 PM in 47 Fondren Science and by appointment.
• Contact:
  • Call me at 768-2497, or
  • Leave a note in the Physics Department Office - 102 Fondren Science, or
  • Send me e-mail: <coan@mail.physics.smu.edu>, or
  • Lie in ambush (i.e., just find me).
• Course overview and grading policy
• Learning Outcomes
• Syllabus
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• Homework solutions

• TA:  Bedile Karabuga, x8-9879, rm 41.
• Required Texts:
  

     Special Relativity
     A.P. French
     Norton, 1968, ISBN 0-393-09793-5 (pb) 

     It's About Time
     N. David Mermin
     Princeton, 2005, ISBN 978-0-691-14127-5 (pb) 

     Vibrations and Waves
     A.P. French
     Norton, 1971, ISBN 0-393-09936--9 (pb) 

     Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves, and Radiation
     George Bekefi and Alan Barrett
     MIT, 1977, ISBN 978-0-262-52047-8 (pb) 

• Texts on 2-hr reserve in Fondren library:
  

     The physics of vibrations and waves
     H. J. Pain
     Wiley, 1968, QC231 .P3 

     Basic training in mathematics
     R. Shankar
     Plenum Press, 1995, QA300.S4315 1995.

     Vibrations and Waves
     George King
     Wiley, 1995, QC174.22 .K56 2009

     Vibrations and Waves
     A.P. French
     Norton, 1971, QC235 .F74

     Special Relativity
     A.P. French
     Norton, 1968, QC6 .F68

• Final Examination:   Fri., 7 May, 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM.
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