An engineering-oriented introduction to wave propagation by an award-winning MIT professor, with highly accessible expositions and mathematical details-many classical but others not heretofore published.
A wave is a traveling disturbance or oscillation-intentional or unintentional-that usually transfers energy without a net displacement of the medium in which the energy travels.
Wave propagation is any of the means by which a wave travels.
This book offers an engineering-oriented introduction to wave propagation that focuses on wave propagation in one-dimensional models that are anchored by the classical wave equation.
The text is written in a style that is highly accessible to undergraduates, featuring extended and repetitive expositions and displaying and explaining mathematical and physical details-many classical but others not heretofore published.
The formulations are devised to provide analytical foundations for studying more advanced topics of wave propagation.
After a precalculus summary of rudimentary wave propagation and an introduction of the classical wave equation, the book presents solutions for the models of systems that are dimensionally infinite, semi-infinite, and finite.
Chapters typically begin with a vignette based on some aspect of wave propagation, drawing on a diverse range of topics.
The book provides more than two hundred end-of-chapter problems (supplying answers to most problems requiring a numerical result or brief analytical expression).
Appendixes cover equations of motion for strings, rods, and circular shafts; shear beams; and electric transmission lines.
Mit Press Ltd Wave propagation | james h. williams
