This excellent undergraduate-level text emphasizes optics and acoustics, covering inductive derivation of the equation for transverse waves on a string, acoustic plane waves, boundary-value problems, polarization, three-dimensional waves and more. With numerous problems (solutions for about half). "The material is superbly chosen and brilliantly written" — Physics Today. Problems. Appendices.
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The Physics of Light and Waves,
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I found this book extremely well written and an excellent introduction to the physics of wave propogation. In my own work I am concerned with the way a light wave propogates through the optics of a telescope. I read the 1967 edition of this book and was pleasantly surprised by Towne's comprehensive and well explained coverage of this subject. This book would make an excellent undergraduate upper level course.
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