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Vibration and Waves

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to provide students with: - The basic knowledge of different type of oscillations and waves and there real- life applications. - The fundamentals of physical optics including interference and Fraunhofer diffraction.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Affordable and Clean Energy

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Review of basic physical mechanics: Work, Energy, Forces, Potential gradient and Power. Vibrations: Uniform circular motion, Simple harmonic motion and its energy, Superposition of harmonic vibrations, Damped vibration, Forced vibration and resonance. Wave motion: Wave equation, Transverse and Longitudinal waves, velocity of sound waves, Intensity of sound waves and intensity levels, Standing waves, Interference and Diffraction of light.
  • Arabic Description

    Review of basic physical mechanics: Work, Energy, Forces, Potential gradient and Power. Vibrations: Uniform circular motion, Simple harmonic motion and its energy, Superposition of harmonic vibrations, Damped vibration, Forced vibration and resonance. Wave motion: Wave equation, Transverse and Longitudinal waves, velocity of sound waves, Intensity of sound waves and intensity levels, Standing waves, Interference and Diffraction of light.
  • Department
    Engineering Physics and Mathematics
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (25 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 3, Tutorial Hours: 0, Lab Hours: 1
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • 1. H. J. Pain, “The Physics of Vibrations and Waves”, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (EKB- ISBN: 978-0470012963
  • 2. George C. King, “Vibrations and Waves”, Wiley, 2009
  • 3. H. J. Pain and P. Rankin, “Introduction to Vibrations and Waves”, John Wiley & Sons, 2015
  • 4. R. Serway and J. W. Jewett, “Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics”, 9th Edition, Brooks Cole, 2014. - H. J. Pain, The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (EKBISBN: 978-0470012963 - H. J. Pain, The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, 6th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005. (EKBISBN: 978-0470012963.