Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)

The Physics of Automatic Target Recognition is part of a series focusing on Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

Ultrasonics International 87 contains the Proceedings of the Ultrasonics International Conference and Exhibition held at London, United Kingdom on July 1987.

Two key words define the scope of this book: 'ultrasound' and 'colloids'.

This book uses asymptotic methods to obtain simple approximate analytic solutions to various problems within mechanics, notably wave processes in heterogeneous materials.

This book provides an in-depth account of the fascinating but far from simple actions and processes that take place when a brass instrument is played.

This book contains the lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the "e;Intersubband Transistions in Quantum Wells"e; held in Cargese, France, between the t 9 h and the 14th of September 1991.

Discover a unified treatment of dynamics of combustor systems, including acoustics, fluid mechanics, and combustion in this new edition.

This book contains 17 invited papers and 80 communicated papers presented at the International Symposium on Physical Acoustics, held at the University Campus of Kortrijk, Belgium, from 19-22 June 1990.

Understand the methods of modern non-stationary signal processing with authoritative insights from a leader in the field.

Proceedings of a workshop on the physics and biophysics of hearing that brought together experimenters and modelers working on all aspects of audition.

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

The theory of waves is generalized on cases when waves change medium in which they appear and propagate.

This textbook provides a guide to the fundamental principles of acoustics in a straightforward manner using a solid foundation in mathematics and physics.

Ultrasonic Physics, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of ultrasonic physics.

This series, Finite Systems and Multipartide Dynamics, is intended to provide timely reviews of current research topics, written in a style sufficient- ly pedagogic so as to allow a nonexpert to grasp the underlying ideas as well as understand technical details.

The 105 theses contained in this book are selected from those whose authors were present at the 20th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging.

Reeds Introductions: Physics Wave Concepts for Marine Engineering Applications covers the fundamental theoretical maritime physics concepts which underpin electromagnetic wave and sonar principles as developed in most maritime-related courses, whether Naval, Coastguard or Merchant Marine engineering.

This book aims to give a thorough grounding in the mathematical tools necessary for research in acoustics.

The focus of this thesis are synchronization phenomena in networks and their intrinsic control through time delay, which is ubiquitous in real-world systems ranging from physics and acoustics to neuroscience and engineering.

Vibrations drive many engineering designs in today's engineering environment.

Data-Driven Techniques in Speech Synthesis gives a first review of this new field.

Physics in the Arts is a concise, 328-page four-color entry in the Complementary Science Series, designed for science enthusiasts and liberal arts students requiring or desiring a well-developed discussion of physical phenomena, particularly with regard to sound and light.

Enables graduate students and researchers to understand and employ a wide variety of methods in applied mathematics.

An engineer's introduction to concepts, algorithms, and advancements in Digital Signal Processing.

Flow Visualization, Second Edition focuses on developments, applications, and results in the field of flow visualization.

This book offers detailed insights into new methods for high-fidelity CFD, and their industrially relevant applications in aeronautics.

This book uses asymptotic methods to obtain simple approximate analytic solutions to various problems within mechanics, notably wave processes in heterogeneous materials.

Nearly a decade aga a general review article on the evaluation of optical radia- tion hazards was published in Applied Optics (Sliney and Freasier, 1973).

Physical Acoustics: Principles and Methods reviews the principles and methods of physical acoustics and covers topics ranging from third sound in superfluid helium films to the method of matched asymptotic expansions (MAE).

The inverse scattering problem is central to many areas of science and technology such as radar and sonar, medical imaging, geophysical exploration and nondestructive testing.

Technical guide to the theory and practice of seismic data processing with MATLAB algorithms for advanced students, researchers and professionals.

Shock waves produce a wide variety of physical, chemical, mineralogical, and other effects in materials through which they pass.

Sound, devoid of meaning, would not matter to us.

Why does a piano sound like a piano?

A fundamental problem in cell biology is the cause of aging.

Explore the laws and theories of physics in this accessible introduction to the forces that shape our Universe, our planet, and our everyday lives.

This book is based on a series of lectures for an Astrophysics of the Interstellar Medium (ISM) master's degree in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Padova University.

The first edition of this book presented the principles of vibration and sound with only a little discussion of applications of these principles.

This book is a practical guide for researchers and advanced graduate students in biology and biophysics who need a quantitative understanding of acoustical systems such as hearing, sound production, and vibration detection in animals at the physiological level.

Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience and others.

Sound is produced by vibrations and as such can be dampened or augmented based on materials selection.

The propagation of acoustic and electromagnetic waves in stratified media is a subject that has profound implications in many areas of applied physics and in engineering, just to mention a few, in ocean acoustics, integrated optics, and wave guides.

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Inventing the Recording focuses on the decades in which recorded sound went from a technological possibility to a commercial and cultural artefact.

Inverse problems in wave propagation concern extraction of information about distant structural features from the measurements of scattered waves.

Introduction to Traveling Waves is an invitation to research focused on traveling waves for undergraduate and masters level students.