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The Physics of Waves

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This text explores and illustrates how wave phenomena arise in any system of coupled linear oscillators with translation invariance and local interactions.

Author(s): Howard M. Georgi
Publisher: Prentice Hall;
Year: 1993,2015

Language: English
Pages: 465

1. Harmonic Oscillation
2. Damping, Forced Oscillations and Resonance
3. Normal Modes
4. Symmetries
5. Waves
6. The Continuum Limit and Fourier Series
7. Longitudinal Oscillations and Sound
8. Traveling Waves
9. The Boundary at Infinity
10. Signals and Fourier Analysis
11. Two and Three Dimensions
12. Polarization
13. Interference and Diffraction
14. Shocks and Wakes
Bibliography
Appendix A: The Programs
Appendix B: Solitons
Appendix C: Goldstone Bosons