Physics 213a 2009
Waves and Optics

Two dimensional waves            Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Instructor: Jorge Moreno (Extension 4934, KINSC L-104)

Office hours: Monday 3-4pm or by appointment

Meets: T,Th 11:30-1:00, KINSC E309

Recitation: Th 7.30pm-8.30pm  TBA

Syllabus

Coupled pendulum applet

This course has a Blackboard site, where solutions and lecture notes will be posted

Pictures

Left: Wave motion in two dimensions. 

Right: ``Galloping Gertie'' -The original Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge near Seattle opened on July 1 1940. It collapsed four months later during a 42 mile/hour windstorm.