BALTIMORE LECTURES ON MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND THE WAVE THEORY OF LIGHT

By Q. MAONR

CONTENTS OSCILLATIONS OF SYSTEMS WITH ONE DEGREE OF FREEDOM FREE HARMONIC OSCILLATIONS DAMPED OSCILLATIONS FORCED OSCILLATIONS RESONANCE CURVES RESONANCE IN NATURE AND IN TECHNOLOGY SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE OSCILLATIONS OF SYSTEMS WITH SEVERAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM FREE OSCILLATORS WITH SEVERAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM FORCED OSCILLATORS WITH SEVERAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM TRANSVERSE OSCILLATIONS OF A STRING THE HARMONIC ANALYSIS HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF A PERIODIC PHENOMENA HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF A NON-PERIODIC PHENOMENA HARMONIC ANALYSIS IN SPACE WAVES PROGRESSIVE WAVES PRODUCTION OF A PROGRESSIVE WAVE RE?ECTION OF A WAVE SOUND WAVES PLANE HARMONIC PLANE WAVES IN SPACE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES SOURCES AND DETECTORS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IMPEDANCE OF FREE SPACE INTENSITY OF THE SOUND WAVES INTENSITY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN A COAXIAL CABLE DOPPLER EFFECT DISPERSION PROPAGATION IN A DISPERSIVE MEDIUM WAVE VELOCITIES MEASUREMENT OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT REFRACTION, RE?ECTION AND DISPERSION OF LIGHT RAINBOW WAVE INTERPRETATION OF RE?ECTION AND REFRACTION RE?ECTED AND TRANSMITTED AMPLITUDES ORIGIN OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN TRANSPARENT DIELECTRIC MEDIA DIFFRACTION, INTERFERENCE, COHERENCE HUYGENS-FRESNEL PRINCIPLE LIGHT INTERFERENCE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL COHERENCE INTERFERENCE WITH NON-COHERENT LIGHT DIFFRACTION DIFFRACTION BY A SLIT DIFFRACTION BY A CIRCULAR APERTURE DIFFRACTION BY RANDOM DISTRIBUTED CENTERS DIFFRACTION BY PERIODICALLY DISTRIBUTED CENTERS DIFFRACTION AS SPATIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM POLARIZATION POLARIZATION STATES OF LIGHT UNPOLARIZED LIGHT DICHROISM ANALYZERS POLARIZATION BY SCATTERING POLARIZATION BY RE?ECTION BIREFRINGENCE PHASE SHIFTERS OPTICAL ACTIVITY OPTICAL IMAGES PRELIMINARIES PLANE MIRRORS AND PRISMS PARABOLIC MIRROR SPHERICAL MIRROR THIN LENSES THIN LENSES IN CONTACT IMAGES OF EXTENDED OBJECTS ABERRATIONS IRREGULARITIES DEPTH OF FIELD AND DEPTH OF FOCUS RESOLVING POWER NATURE OF THE LENS ACTION MAGNIFYING GLASS TELESCOPE MICROSCOPE PHOTOMETRIC QUANTITIES PROPERTIES OF IMAGES IMAGES AND DIFFRACTION ABBE THEORY OF IMAGE FORMATION PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPE SINE GRATING FRESNEL ZONES ZONE PLATE ACTION OF THE ZONE PLATE ON A SPHERICAL WAVE CAMERA OBSCURA GABOR GRATING HOLOGRAMS