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  title info:
    title: Wave Propagation in Solids and Fluids
  name:
    name part: Davis, Julian L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 386 pages 58 illustrations)
  abstract: This book presents a clear and systematic treatment of the mathematical methods of wave phenomena in solids and fluids that will be readily accessible to physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians. The emphasis is on developing the necessary mathematical techniques and on showing how they can be effective in unifying the physics of wave propagation in a variety of physical settings: sound and shock waves in gases, water waves, stress waves in solids, etc. One of the unique features of this book is the treatment of the Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the setting of variational methods. This theory is fundamental to the treatment of the partial differential equations of wave propagation; it bridges the gap between classical mechanics and geometric optics and sets the scene for the development of the quantum mechanics. Another interesting feature of this book is that it organizes some of the more advanced material such as nonlinear theory and asymptotic expansion methods, now scattered in the literature, into a systematic presentation.
  table of contents: Oscillatory Phenomena -- The Physics of Wave Propagation -- Partial Differential Equations of Wave Propagation -- Transverse Vibrations of Strings -- Water Waves -- Sound Waves -- Fluid Dynamics -- Wave Propagation in Elastic Media -- Variational Methods in Wave Phenomena -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Julian L. Davis.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Mechanics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  classification: QC120-168.85
  classification: QA808.2
  classification: 531
  identifier: 9781461238867 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461238862 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781461283904
  identifier: 1461283906
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260420210653.1
    record identifier: in00003573672
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng