Understanding Acoustics : : An Experimentalist’s View of Sound and Vibration / / by 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 edition...
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| Superior document: | Graduate Texts in Physics, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2020. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Physics,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XLIII, 783 p. 413 illus., 93 illus. in color.) |
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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.