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College Catalog 2016-2017 
    
College Catalog 2016-2017 ARCHIVED CATALOG

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PHYS 250 - Computational Oscillations & Waves


Analysis of damped and driven oscillators and resonance phenomena in various physical contexts; coupled oscillators and modes. Solutions of the wave equation, superposition, traveling waves, standing waves. Introduction to non-linearity. Heavy use of computers and computational techniques are stressed throughout the course.

Pre-req: PHYS 150 and MATH 141B
3 credits



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