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FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI

SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES


DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

PHY 104: GENERAL PHYSICS IV (VIBRATION, WAVES AND OPTICS)


WEEKLY LECTURE SCHEDULE, 2023/2024 SESSION

Weeks Topics Learning Outcomes


1 Simple harmonic motion Students should be able to:
(SHM). Energy in a ✓ describe simple harmonic motion.
vibrating system. ✓ describe and quantitatively analyse the behaviour of
Damped SHM. vibrating systems and wave energy.
Resonance and ✓ solve some problems.
transients. Coupled
SHM.

2 Q values and power Students should be able to:


response curves. Normal ✓ explain Q values and power response curves, and solve
modes. Waves (types and some problems.
properties of waves as ✓ describe normal modes.
applied to sound). ✓ describe the types of waves.
✓ explain the propagation and properties of waves as applied
to sound.
✓ carry out calculations involving wave speed, wavelength,
frequency, period etc.

3 Transverse and Students should be able to:


longitudinal waves ✓ distinguish between transverse and longitudinal waves.
(superposition, ✓ describe the superposition principle of waves, interference,
interference, diffraction, diffraction, dispersion and polarization of waves.
dispersion, polarization). ✓ discuss wave at interfaces.
Wave at interfaces ✓ describe energy and power of waves, and solve some
(energy and power of problems.
waves).

4 The wave equation. 2-D Students should be able to:


and 3-D wave equations. ✓ identify and apply the wave equations.
Phase and group ✓ describe 2-D and 3-D wave equations, and solve some
velocities. problems.
✓ describe phase and group velocities, and solve some simple
problems.

TEST

5 Echo and beats. The Students should be able to:


Doppler-effect. ✓ describe echo and beats.
Propagation of sound in ✓ explain Doppler-effect, give some simple examples, and
gases, solids and liquids, solve some problems.
and their properties. ✓ describe the propagation of sound in gases, solids and
liquids and their properties.

6 Optics: nature and Students should be able to:


propagation of light. ✓ describe the nature and propagation of light.
Reflection and ✓ state the laws of reflection and refraction, and solve some
Refraction. Internal problems.
reflection. ✓ describe internal reflection, total internal reflection, and
solve some problems.

7 Scattering of light. Students should be able to:


Reflection and refraction ✓ describe the scattering of light and its applications.
at plane and spherical ✓ explain the reflection and refraction of light when it strikes
surfaces. Thin lenses and plane and spherical surfaces, and their applications.
optical instruments. ✓ describe thin lenses, and solve some problems using thin
lens equation.
✓ describe optical instruments, explain the principles of
optical instruments and their various applications.

8 Wave nature of light. Students should be able to:


Dispersion. Huygens’s ✓ describe the wave nature of light.
principle (interference ✓ distinguish between wavelength, frequency and speed, and
and diffraction). solve some problems.
✓ describe the dispersion of light and its applications.
✓ describe Huygens’s principle with respect to concepts such
as light diffraction and interference.
✓ solve some problems.

B. O. Okereke
Coordinator, General Physics IV

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