Cornell University

Department of Physics

Phys 214 November 9, 2003

Waves, Optics, and Particles, Fall 2003

Homework Assignment # 9

(Due Thursday, November 13 at 5:00pm sharp.)

Agenda and readings for the week of November 10:

Skills to be mastered:

• Understand the pattern produced by $N$ slit interference

• Understand the locations of the principal maxima, lesser maxima, and minima in an $N$ slit pattern

• Understand the concept of width of a maximum in an interference pattern

• Understand the properties of the interference pattern produced by diffraction on a finite slit.

Readings marked YF are from the text Young and Freedman, University Physics, 10th edition. Readings marked LN are from the course lecture notes to be found at http://www.muchomas.lassp.cornell.edu/P214.

• Lec 21, 11/11 (Tue): Differential equation form for conservation laws; conservation of momentum.
  Readings: LN ``Wave Phenomena III: Transport of momentum and energy,'' Secs. 1, 2, 3.

• Lec 22, 11/13 (Thu): Conservation of energy, power, special cases for traveling waves.
  Readings: LN ``Wave Phenomena III: Transport of momentum and energy,'' Sec. 4.

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