The Physics of Waves - Softcover

Georgi, Howard

3.44

16 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136656218 ISBN 13: 9780136656210

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings, 1992

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

The first complete introduction to waves and wave phenomena by a renowned theorist. Covers damping, forced oscillations and resonance; normal modes; symmetries; traveling waves; signals and Fourier analysis; polarization; diffraction.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Synopsis:

A complete introduction to waves and wave phenomena by a renowned American theorist, this book focuses on three underlying principles - linearity, translation invariance and local interactions. Beginning with the single harmonic oscillator, the book proceeds through standing wave normal modes in increasingly interesting systems. Examples of waves phenomena from familiar waves are used, but the mechanics of waves is developed in a way that can be directly applied to quantum mechanics. An accompanying disk features over 100 animations of various wave phenomena (for IBM and Macintosh).

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.