Pain The Physics of Vibrations and Waves

6. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-68147-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

The main theme of this highly successful book is that thetransmission of energy by wave propogation is fundamental to almostevery branch of physics. Therefore, besides giving students athorough grounding in the theory of waves and vibrations, the bookalso demonstrates the pattern and unity of a large part ofphysics.
This new edition has been thoroughly revised and has beenredeisgned to meet the best contemporary standards. It includes newmaterial on electron waves in solids using the Kronig-Penney modelto show how their allowed energies are limited to Brillouin zones,The role of phonons is also discussed. An Optical Transform is usedto demonstrate the modern method of lens testing. In the last twochapters the sections on chaos and solitons have been reduced buttheir essential contents remain.
As with earlier editions, the book has a large number of problemstogether with hints on how to solve them. The Physics of Vibrationsand Waves, 6th Edition will prove invaluable for students taking afirst full course in the subject across a variety of disciplinesparticularly physics, engineering and mathematics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pain, H. John

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to First Edition.
Introduction to Second Edition.
Introduction to Third Edition.
Introduction to Fourth Edition.
Introduction to Fifth Edition.
Introduction to Sixth Edition.
1 Simple Harmonic Motion.
2 Damped Simple Harmonic Motion.
3 The Forced Oscillator.
4 Coupled Oscillations.
5 Transverse Wave Motion.
6 Longitudinal Waves.
7 Waves on Transmission Lines.
8 Electromagnetic Waves.
9 Waves in More than One Dimension.
10 Fourier Methods.
11 Waves in Optical Systems.
12 Interference and Diffraction.
13 Wave Mechanics.
14 Non-linear Oscillations and Chaos.
15 Non-linear Waves, Shocks and Solitons.
Appendix 1: Normal Modes, Phase Space and StatisticalPhysics.
Appendix 2: Kirchhoff's Integral Theorem.
Appendix 3: Non-Linear Schro¨dinger Equation.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

H. J. Pain is a graduate of the united states Naval Aviation Academy, Florida, and of the Universities of St Andrews, London and Aix Marseilles. He taught physics at Imperial College, London where his research interests were in shock waves and magnetohydrodynamics.