Physics 3310

Waves and Relativity - Spring 2007

Course Information

• Lecture: TTh 8-9:50 AM @ rm 157 Fondren Science.
• Lecturer: Professor Thomas E. Coan
• Office hour: Mon 11:00am -12:00pm in 16 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 (aka, just find me).
• Course overview and grading policy
• Syllabus
• Homework solutions

• Required Texts:
  

     The Physics of Waves
     H. Georgi
     Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-665621-8 (hc) 

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

• 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.

• Final Examination:   Sat., 5 May 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM.
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