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Spring 2008  Phys 5A  4/23  Lecture 2.15  50 minutes
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, 
So do our minutes hasten to their end."
--William Shakespeare

TODAY (*.pdf)
Clicker homework

4/21 Problem 10.60 example
     calculator clarification at waiferx.blogspot.com

[Ch. 11.1: Intensity--discussion deferred until Ch. 12.1]
Ch. 11.2: Tranverse and Longitudinal Waves
     (Conceptual understanding only; study on own)

Chs. 11.3-11.4: Periodic Waves (*.pdf)
     Ex: Problem 11.10
     Ex: Problem 11.13 (extended)
     Ex: Multiple-Choice Questions 11.5, 11.6, 11.8 (extended)
          Transverse Waves Applet
          (B. Surendranath Reddy, surendranath.org)
          Diplodocus skeleton
          (NM Museum of Natural History and Science, webshots.com)
          Supersonic Sauropods? Tail Dynamics in the Diplodocids
          (_Paleobiology_ vol. 23, no. 4 (8/97) pp. 393-409)
     
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Homework
     Problems 11.6(a) (along which string will the pulse move faster?)
              11.9 (for practice only)
              11.12
              11.13 (for practice only)
              11.14
              11.15(a) (for practice only)
              11.17 (for practice only)
     Comprehensive Problem 11.70(a)-(b)
              
Read Chs. 11.7 (concepts: Principle of Superposition; p. 396 "!" comment)
          11.8 (inversion/reflection at fixed end, Fig. 11.15)
          11.10 (Fig. 11.21)