Understanding Acoustics An Experimentalist’s View of Acoustics and Vibration

Understanding Acoustics An Experimentalist’s View of Acoustics and Vibration / by Steven L. Garrett.

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids. The book includes thorough treatment of vibration of harmonic oscillators, coupled oscillators, isotropic elasticity, and waves in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrett, Steven L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Graduate Texts in Physics,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Fluids.
Acoustical engineering.
Oceanography.
Fluid mechanics.
Vibration.
Dynamical systems.
Dynamics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Comfort for the Computationally Crippled
  • Part I-Vibrations
  • 2. The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
  • 3. String Theory
  • 4. Elasticity of Solids
  • 5. Modes of Bars
  • 6. Membranes, Plates, and Microphones
  • Part II-Fluids
  • 7. Ideal Gas Laws
  • 8. Non-dissipative Lumped Elements
  • 9. Dissipative Hydrodynamics
  • 10. One-dimensional propagation
  • 11. Reflection, Transmission and Refraction
  • 12. Radiation and Scattering
  • 13. Three-Dimensional Enclosures
  • 14. Attenuation of Sound
  • PART III - Extensions
  • 15. Nonlinear acoustics
  • Appendix
  • Index.

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