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Starting from first principles, the authors have successfully produced a unified and thorough treatment of the subjects of generation, propagation, absorption, reflection, and scattering of compressional waves in fluids, progressing to such topics as moving sound sources, turbulence, and wave-induce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morse, Philip M. (Philip McCord), 1903-1985
Other Authors: Ingard, K. Uno
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1986]
Subjects:
Sound.
Sound
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introductory
  • The linear oscillator
  • Coupled linear oscillators
  • The flexible string
  • Bars, membranes, and plates
  • Acoustic wave motion
  • The radiation of sound
  • The scattering of sound
  • Sound waves in ducts and rooms
  • Coupling of acoustical systems
  • Acoustics in moving media
  • Plasma acoustics
  • Acoustooptical interaction
  • Nonlinear oscillations and waves
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary of symbols
  • Tables of functions
  • Plates
  • Index.