Background Information on Waves, Interference
and Diffraction : Stuff that you need to know to understand Quantum Physics
Here is a pdf
file
(20 collated scanned pages, 2.18Mb) of the lecture notes
from Sean O'Conner, ex-TA. This should get you started. To keep file
sizes small, the scan is low resolution. In order to view pdf file format
you need Free ACROBAT
READER 5.0.
In addition, you should be very familiar with the material
in Chapter 36 and 37 of "Fundamentals
of Physics" By Halliday, Resnick & Walker, 6th edition. Published by
Wiley Inc. Copies of this book should be available at the library.
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if
you have problem acessing, viewing or printing the file on your computing
platform.