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8.03 Physics III

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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR) and Physics II (GIR)
Units: 5-0-7
URL: http://web.mit.edu/physics/subjects/index.html
Lecture: TR12-1.30 (32-082) Recitation: MW10 (26-314) or MW11 (26-314) or MW1 (32-082) or MW2 (32-082) +final

Mechanical vibrations and waves; simple harmonic motion, superposition, forced vibrations and resonance, coupled oscillations, and normal modes; vibrations of continuous systems; reflection and refraction; phase and group velocity. Optics; wave solutions to Maxwell's equations; polarization; Snell's Law, interference, Huygens's principle, Fraunhofer diffraction, and gratings.
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