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Almost All About Waves (Dover Books on Physics)

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This is an excellent book that discusses the physics of waves with a minimum of math. A very readable introduction to waves. Sadly, at the time of this writing, this book is out of print. However, if you can find a copy it is worth reading.

While this book is short and relatively well-written, it is entirely full of jargon and doesn't stay long enough on any one topic to fully develop it. The book assumes you already know the material, and I think doesn't really do a good job reviewing it, if you did. I am fine with the mathematics in it, which are not difficult, but this appears to be written for electrical engineers, who want a refresher, I guess. But he spends too much space introducing the basics, which an EE would already know. What audience is this book actually written for? Who knows?

A much better unifying high-level cheap Dover book on waves, that actually hits the mark is Physics of Waves; that book has much more content, is more deliberate, and isn't just confined to electromagnetic waves.

This may be "almost all about waves" but it assume you have already taken a course on waves. With vertually no introduction to the mathematic terms it starts immediately into the equations with multiple terms that it does not define. By page 12 I found myself in the widipedia trying to understand the terms.

It might makes for nice summary but it is not a place to learn about wave mechanics.

Deeply disappointing. I have a strong math background, and a modest physics one. I was hoping to learn some of the physics intuitively, and did not. It just isn't in here. Unclear in many places. All about wave coupling asnd how it affects power transmission.