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.
The following short handout connects the two major parts of the course
by obtaining the Wave Equation from a very large normal modes problem:
The Dispersive Wavepacket Plotter exhibits dispersion phenomena for
surface waves on water. Follow the link below and read the instruction pane.
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.
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C W P Palmer, University of Oxford.
This page updated Dec 2022