This book is designed as a text for an undergraduate course on vibrations and waves. The overall objectives of the book are to lead the student through the basic physical concepts of vibrations and waves and to demonstrate how these concepts unify a wide variety of familiar physics. This new edition contains an elementary, descriptive introduction to the important ideas of chaos. The author has also taken pains to update the applications. As with previous editions, the book contains numerous problems with hints and numerical solutions.
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"...an excellent book which can be thoroughly recommended either for use as a text for an undergraduate course introducing the student to many of the widely-pervading notions connected with vibrations and waves, or indeed for anyone who feels the need to broaden his knowledge in this sphere." Nature
"This second edition is undeniably even better and should become a standard text for waves courses in many disciplines, in addition to its original home in a physics department." Physics Education
"...A masterful accomplishment." American Journal of Physics
"...[has] gone beyond the diet of springs and strings that dominates the traditional, unimaginative waves-and-oscillations course....[brings] in plenty of real-world applications such as transmission of electromagnetic waves, and lead[s] the reader to quantum theory in a mainly painless introduction." Tania Monteiro, New Scientist
"This second edition is undeniably even better and should become a standard text for waves courses in many disciplines, in addition to its original home in a physics department." Physics Education
"...A masterful accomplishment." American Journal of Physics
"...[has] gone beyond the diet of springs and strings that dominates the traditional, unimaginative waves-and-oscillations course....[brings] in plenty of real-world applications such as transmission of electromagnetic waves, and lead[s] the reader to quantum theory in a mainly painless introduction." Tania Monteiro, New Scientist
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This revised new edition of a text for an undergraduate course contains an elementary, descriptive introduction to the important ideas of chaos. The applications have also been updated. As with the previous edition, the text contains numerous problems with hints and numerical solutions.
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As a physics and math major, I was EXTREMELY disappointed in the lack of examples in this text. Learning physics involves more than abstract mathematical knowledge, it involves examining the material in many real world situations. If you are considering assigning this text for your course, I beg you to reconsider. Your students will thank you!
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Great advanced introduction,
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Based on the small number of reviews here, this work appears to be relatively unknown and unsung here. Allow me to contribute a hearty "thumbs up" here because I feel it is a great packaging of well-selected basics and intuition. If you are a student advancing in physics and dynamics, I hope it at least gets on your list of things to check out.
I personally love this book! However, I am long beyond (in time, if not in learning) introductory physics; so let me try to make an informed recommendation. I think this should be your SECOND waves book. I can see how readers using it for a first exposure to waves or partial differential equations can feel challenged, as it is concise and often leaves you alone. And in return for its conciseness it treats a wider and more advanced set of topics than I remember in my "first" introduction books: Eg, nice first tastes of nonlinearity, solitons, water waves. But at this slightly advanced level of this book, it has a lot to offer, and I find it unique: - The topic selection is terrific! Just to give you an example: It provides an introductory treatment of the Klein-Gordon equation (and I don't know why other basic books don't), nicely illustrated in the book as a system involving something like a set of mattress box springs. If you happen to go on to more advanced work, eg quantum physics and the origin of mass, you might think back to this "mattress" picture and have some extra basic intuition about it. This is just one example of how I find that the topics selected by this book "fall into place" elsewhere in my travels. - The book sticks to an introductory level on the wide variety of topics and uses the short space to convey fundamental intuition. It is certainly not a thorough / detailed / last word treatment on any of the topics-- but I would not want to bore myself reading such technical detail cover to cover. Instead, I can almost imagine an author that very much sees the big picture-- bigger than can fit into many books--, carefully chose the most important aspects and intuitions to convey, and then enthusiastically, perhaps impatiently, tried to compress and convey it as fast as possible. Lastly, as a "later" book you study on the subject, its conciseness and speed might be just right-- eg, good for a fast track conceptual review without fluff. What was my "first" book on this subject? I don't even remember now. But this book is still on my shelf, on my mind, and I'm thankful enough to write a review!
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Whatever you do, do not read this book,
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As some people have mentioned, this book is impossible to read. The derivations are unclear, the content lacks motivation, and the dull writing style makes the book a real chore to read. Do yourself a favor and read a different book on waves. Try Waves by Frank S. Crawford.
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Most physical systems possess certain properties which enable them, under suitable conditions, to vibrate; we shall examine a few examples in chapter 2. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
damped vibrator, lightly damped plasma, prototype vibrator, sinusoidal travelling wave, diffraction centres, local signal speed, longitudinal travelling waves, return torque, travelling wave equation, forced vibrator, kinetic energy contours, bandwidth theorem, heavily damped system, constructive superposition, plasma vibrations, transmitted disturbance, harmonic driving force, anchored string, rotational analogue, collision damping, lightly damped system, principal maxima, stiff string, incident disturbance, travelling disturbance New!
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Most physical systems possess certain properties which enable them, under suitable conditions, to vibrate; we shall examine a few examples in chapter 2. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
damped vibrator, lightly damped plasma, prototype vibrator, sinusoidal travelling wave, diffraction centres, local signal speed, longitudinal travelling waves, return torque, travelling wave equation, forced vibrator, kinetic energy contours, bandwidth theorem, heavily damped system, constructive superposition, plasma vibrations, transmitted disturbance, harmonic driving force, anchored string, rotational analogue, collision damping, lightly damped system, principal maxima, stiff string, incident disturbance, travelling disturbance New!
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