Oscillations and Waves

ISBN-13: 9783642082818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 523 str.

Fritz K. Kneubuhl

Opis

In the course of over thirty years of research in various fields of physics and teaching experimental physics to undergraduate and graduate students of physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, chemistry and natural sciences I missed an introductory comprehensive book on the mathematics of linear and nonlinear oscillations and waves from the point of view of physicists and engineers. Oscillations and waves are the playground for all kinds of scientists in spite of the fact that they represent essentially mathematical concepts. In this field, however, the interests of experimentalists and engineers, on one side, and mathematicians, on the other side, usually differ. The latter are most interested and engaged in proofs of general fundamentallaws on the existence and behavior of the solutions of basic differential equations and on the convergence of their approximations, whereas the former need explicit analytical and numerical solutions or approximations, computer programs and graphic displays. In the past decades a gap opened between these two groups with the result that they have difficulties in communicating with each other. This comprehensive book represents a novel attempt to bridge this gap. This book is based on my lecture notes and its predecessor "Lineare und nichtlineare Schwingungen und Wellen" published by B. G. Teubner, Stuttgart, FRG, in 1995. The contents of the previous book have been considerably extended, revised and improved thanks to advice from colleagues and co-workers. Additions to be mentioned are the first c1assification of two-dimensional autonomous, i. e.

Spis treści

1 Introduction.- 2 Free Oscillations.- 3 Forced Oscillations.- 4 Kinematics of Systems.- 5 Transfer Systems.- 6 Instability and Chaos.- 7 Linear Waves.- 8 Nonlinear Waves.- 9 Standing Waves.- A Appendix.- A.1 Fourier Series.- A.1.1 General Rules.- A.1.2 Real Periodic Functions.- A.2 Fourier Transformation.- A.2.1 General Rules.- A.2.2 Real Functions.- A.3 Laplace Transformation.- A.3.1 General Rules.- A.3.2 Heaviside and Dirac Functions.- A.3.3 Real Functions.- A.4 Convolution (Faltung).- A.4.1 General Rules.- A.4.2 Heaviside Unit Step.- A.4.3 Special Real Functions.- A.4.4 Hilbert Transformation.- References.- B Books.- J Publications in Journals.

O autorze

The author has lectured basic and advanced physics to physicists, mathematicians, chemists, and natural scientists for over thirty years. In addition to 400 scientific publications he has written the two well-known German books "Repetitorium der Physik" (also in Russian) and "Laser" (with M.W. Sigrist).

Blurb

This text presents a clear, systematic, and comprehensive introduction to the relevant mathematics and physics of linear and nonlinear oscillations and waves. Special emphasis is placed on the basic equations and known as well as new analytical solutions, which are clarified by numerous illustrations. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, and fluid mechanics. It will also be of use to scientists and engineers involved in research at universities and in industry.