Understanding Acoustics An Experimentalist’s View of Acoustics and Vibration /

• Main Author: Garrett, Steven L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Oceanography.; Fluids.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Fluid mechanics.; Acoustical engineering.; Fluid- and Aerodynamics.; Engineering Acoustics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids. The book includes thorough treatment of vibration of harmonic oscillators, coupled oscillators, isotropic elasticity, and waves in...

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.