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Understanding Acoustics An Experimentalist’s View of Acoustics and Vibration

Provides graduate-level treatment of acoustics and vibration suitable for use in courses and for self-guided study Highlights fundamental physical principles that can provide independent tests of the validity of numerical solutions and computer simulations Demonstrates use of approximation technique...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrett, Steven L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Graduate Texts in Physics
Subjects:
Mechanics, Applied
Engineering Fluid Dynamics
Fluid Mechanics
Continuum Mechanics
Engineering Acoustics
Multibody Systems And Mechanical Vibrations
Vibration
Multibody Systems
Oceanography
Acoustical Engineering
Ocean Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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