Oscillations and Waves

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Fritz K. Kneubühl (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text presents a clear, systematic, and comprehensive introduction to the relevant mathematics and physics of linear and nonlinear oscillations and waves. Special emphasis is placed on the basic equations and known as well as new analytical solutions, which are clarified by numerous illustrations. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, and fluid mechanics. It will also be of use to scientists and engineers involved in research at universities and in industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Free Oscillations....Pages 5-110
Forced Oscillations....Pages 111-146
Kinematics of Systems....Pages 147-275
Transfer Systems....Pages 276-299
Instabilities & Chaos....Pages 300-330
Linear Waves....Pages 331-412
Nonlinear Waves....Pages 413-450
Standing Waves....Pages 451-478
Back Matter....Pages 479-525

✦ Subjects

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Mechanics;Acoustics;Real Functions;Computational Intelligence;Theoretical and Applied Mechanics