These slides are a work in progress and will be updated regularly during T3, 2025.
Lecture 9 14 Oct 2025 electromagnetic waves, Poynting vector, radiation pressure
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Lecture 10 17 Oct 2025 Huygens principle, reflection, refraction, rainbows, total internal reflection
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Lecture 11 28 Oct 2025 coherent light, interference, Young's double slit experiment
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Lecture 12 31 Oct 2025 phase changes at interfaces, thin films, Michelson interferometer, single-slit diffraction
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Lecture 13 4 Nov 2025 double-slit interference, diffraction from circular apertures, diffraction gratings, x-ray crystallography
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Lecture 14 7 Nov 2025 polarisation, photoelectric effect
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Lecture 15 11 Nov 2025 Compton scattering, blackbody spectrum, Schrodinger's equation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
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Lecture 16 14 Nov 2025 more Schrodinger, the hydrogen atom, energy transitions, Pauli's exclusion principle