Dr Christopher W P Palmer

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
and
Balliol College


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Normal Modes and Waves Lectures


Normal Modes and Waves is a 12-lecture course given to first-year undergraduates in Hilary Term. I gave this course in 2019 and 2020. Some of the resources created for these lectures are available below.

There are two detailed handouts covering major parts of the course:
Normal Modes Handout.
Energy in Waves Handout.

The following short handout connects the two major parts of the course by obtaining the Wave Equation from a very large normal modes problem:
Modes to Waves Handout.

The Dispersive Wavepacket Plotter exhibits dispersion phenomena for surface waves on water. Follow the link below and read the instruction pane.
Dispersive Wavepacket Plotter

This is the problem Set I developed for the course. This set is still being maintained (as at Dec 2022) and a solution set is available on request.
Problem Set

C W P Palmer, University of Oxford.

This page updated Dec 2022