Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Oscillatory Motion:Simple harmonic motion, Energy of the Simple Harmonic Oscillator, The Pendulum.
Week - 2	Wave Motion: Wave types, Progressive wave in one dimension, Overlapping and interference of waves
Week - 3	Wave Motion:Overlapping and interference of waves, Sinusoidal waves, The Speed of waves on strings, Rate of energy transfer by sinusoidal waves on string, Linear wave equation
Week - 4	Sound Waves: Speed of sound waves, Periodic sound waves, Energy and intensity of periodic sound waves, Sound level as decibels
Week - 5	Sound Waves: Spherical and planar waves, The Doppler effect
Week - 6	General Review and Problem Solutions
Week - 7	Superposition and Standing Waves: Superposition and interference, Standing waves, Standing waves in a string fixed at both ends.
Week - 8	Superposition and Standing Waves (continued): Resonance, Standing waves in air columns.
Week - 9	The Nature of Light and the Laws of Geometric Optics: The nature of light, Measurements of the speed of light, The ray approximation in geometric optics, Reflection, Refraction, Huygen’s principle, Dispersion and prisms, Total internal reflection.
Week - 10	General Review and Problem Solutions
Week - 11	Image Formation: Images formed by flat mirrors, Images formed by spherical mirrors.
Week - 12	Image Formation: Images Formed by Refraction, Thin Lenses
Week - 13	Interference of Light Waves: Conditions for interference, Young’s double-slit experiment, Phasor addition of waves, Change of phase due to reflection, Interference in thin films.
Week - 14	Diffraction Patterns and Polarization: Introduction to Diffraction, Diffraction Patterns from Narrow Slits, Polarization of Light Waves