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Wavefronts and Rays: As Characteristics and Asymptotics: Second Edition - Hardcover

Andrej Bona; Michael A Slawinski

 
9789814644785: Wavefronts and Rays: As Characteristics and Asymptotics: Second Edition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9814644781 ISBN 13: 9789814644785
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

This textbook — incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises — is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textbooks for a coherent treatment of all topics. The authors' emphasis and extremely good presentation of the theory of characteristics, which defines the rays, accentuate the beauty and versatility of this theory. To this end, the rigour of the formulation — by a pure mathematician's standards — is downplayed to highlight the physical meaning and to make the subject accessible to a wider audience. The authors describe in detail the theory of characteristics for different types of differential equations, the applications to wave propagation in different types of media, and phenomena such as caustics.

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This textbook incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textbooks for a coherent treatment of all topics. The authors' emphasis and extremely good presentation of the theory of characteristics, which defines the rays, accentuate the beauty and versatility of this theory. To this end, the rigour of the formulation by a pure mathematician's standards is downplayed to highlight the physical meaning and to make the subject accessible to a wider audience. The authors describe in detail the theory of characteristics for different types of differential equations, the applications to wave propagation in different types of media, and phenomena such as caustics.

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Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9814644781
ISBN 13 
9789814644785
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
344