I-2 The wave Equation, Phasors, Wave Packets, Interference, Diffraction

I.2 The wave Equation, Phasors, Wave Packets, Interference, Diffraction

           2.1   Description of waves: The Wave Equation                                                                                                                  

          2.2   Description of waves in Complex Variable
                     2.2.A   Complex numbers                                                                                                                                                        
                                    Interesting story: How the Imaginary Numbers were invented   
                     2.2.B   Representation of traveling harmonic waves in complex variable: Phasors                          
                     2.2.C   Studying atomic electronic excitations using forced harmonic oscillator model              Enero 21,  Enero 23      

          2.3    Plane waves                                                                                                                                                                                   Enero 23,  Enero 30 
          2.4   Wave-packet propagation and the spatial-spectral relationship

          2.5   Interference
                    2.5.A   Addition of several coherent fields
                    2.5.B   Gratings and spectral resolution

          2.6   Diffraction by an edge obstacle

          2.7   Light waves in different situations