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This document provides the homework assignment for February 15th. Students are to complete problems from chapters 7, 8, and 11 of the Boas textbook. They also must complete an extra credit problem to find the Fourier transform of a decaying oscillation function and sketch the resulting F(ω). This will produce a Lorentzian line shape, where parameters ω0 and γ relate to the central frequency and decay rate of the oscillation.

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This document provides the homework assignment for February 15th. Students are to complete problems from chapters 7, 8, and 11 of the Boas textbook. They also must complete an extra credit problem to find the Fourier transform of a decaying oscillation function and sketch the resulting F(ω). This will produce a Lorentzian line shape, where parameters ω0 and γ relate to the central frequency and decay rate of the oscillation.

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Homework #4 (due on 02/15)

Boas Chapter 7 (Fourier transforms)


12.3; 12.11; 12.21; 13.20;
Boas Chapter 8 (Dirac -function)
11.15; 11.21;
Boas Chapter 11 (Special functions)
3.17; 5.5; 13.5; 13.17;
Extra-credit problem Frequency spectrum of decaying oscillations
Many naturally-occurring oscillations start from some instantaneous perturbation, and
then decay with time. Mathematically, they are described as
0
t<0

f (t ) = t
Ae cos 0 t t 0
Find Fourier transform of this function F() . Then consider a high-frequency case such
that ,0>>1,. The resulting line-shape is called Lorentzian, and appears very often in,
for example, optical and microwave spectroscopy.
Sketch the resulting F(). Based on this sketch, what is the physical meaning of
parameters 0 and ?

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