Understanding acoustics : an experimentalist's view of sound and vibration / Steven L. Garrett.

This open access textbook, like Rayleigh's classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first ed...

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Main Author: Garrett, Steven L., 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : [Place of publication not identified] : Springer ; Jointly published with ASA Press, [2020]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Graduate texts in physics,
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1: Comfort for the Computationally Crippled
  • Part I
  • Vibrations
  • Chapter2: The Simple Harmonic Oscillator
  • Chapter3: String Theory
  • Chapter4: Elasticity of Solids
  • Chapter5: Modes of Bars
  • Chapter6: Membranes, Plates and Microphones
  • Part 2
  • Waves in Fluids
  • Chapter7: Ideal Gas Laws
  • Chapter8: Nondissipative Lumped Elements
  • Chapter8: Nondissipative Lumped Elements
  • Chapter9: Dissipative Hydrodynamics
  • Chapter10: One-Dimensional Propagation
  • Chapter11: Reflection, Transmission, and Refraction
  • Chapter12: Radiation and Scattering
  • Chapter13: Three-Dimensional Enclosures
  • Chapter14: Attenuation of Sound
  • Part3: Extensions
  • Chapter15: Nonlinear Acoustics.