About the Book:
For the Third Edition of this successful undergraduate text, the author
has made a number of changes to improve the presentation and clarify some of
the arguments, and has also brought several of the applications up to date. The
new material includes an elementary, descriptive introduction to the idea
behind the new science of chaos.
The overall of objectives of the book are unchanged: to lead the
students to a thorough understanding of the basic concepts of variations and
waves, to show how these concepts unify a wide variety of familiar physics, and
to open doors to advanced topics which they illuminate. From elementary
beginnings the underlying theory is carefully developed with the aid of
appropriate mechanical models. The theoretical presentation of such topics as
free and forced vibrations, damping travelling and standing waves, energy
propagation, attenuation and dispersion is punctuated by chapters in which the
various physical examples are discussed, with due emphasis on the numerical
sizes of the quantities involved. Each section of the book contains. There
approximately 180 problems to which all numerical answers are provided,
together with hints for their solutions.
The book is designed both for use as a text for an initial
undergraduate course on vibrations and waves, and for a reference at later
stages when more advanced topics or applications are met. As such it is
suitable for undergraduates at all levels in physics or any physics-based
discipline concerned with vibrations and waves. |
Contents:
1.
Free Vibrations 2.
Free Vibrations in Physics 3.
Damping 4.
Damping in Physics 5.
Forced Vibrations 6.
Forced Vibrations in
Physics 7.
Anharmonic Vibrations 8.
Two-coordinate Vibrations 9.
Non-dispersive waves 10.
Non-dispersive waves in
physics 11.
Fourier Theory 12.
Dispersion 13.
Water Waves 14.
Electromagnetic Waves 15.
De Broglie Waves 16.
Solitary Waves 17.
Plane Waves at boundaries 18. Diffraction |
