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Book SynopsisAN AUTHORITATIIVE, UP-TO-DATE INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ACOUSTICS Easy to read and understand, Fundamentals of Physical Acoustics fills a long-standing need for an acoustics text that challenges but does not overpower graduate students in engineering and physics.
Trade Review"This book is an excellent piece of work. The text is extremely clear and goes a long way towards meeting the declared pedagogical target. The author has written a comprehensive text. The proportions of the equations and explanations/interpretations are particularly well balanced. Throughout the book, the context and the validity domain for any equation derived are clearly stated. No doubt this book will be of invaluable help for students, academics, and engineers." (Applied Acoustics, March 2002)
Table of ContentsDetailed Development of the Acoustical Wave Equation.
Reflection and Transmission of Normally Incident Plane Waves of Arbitrary Waveform.
Normal Incidence Continued: Steady-State Analysis.
Transmission Phenomena: Oblique Incidence.
Normal Modes in Cartesian Coordinates: Strings, Membranes, Rooms, and Rectangular Waveguides.
Horns.
Propagation in Stratified Media.
Propagation in Dissipative Fluids: Absorption and Dispersion.
Spherical Waves.
Cylindrical Waves.
Waveguides.
Radiation from a Baffled Piston.
Diffraction.
Arrays.
Appendices.
Index.
