Understanding Acoustics : An Experimentalist's View of Acoustics and Vibration / by Steven L. Garrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrett, Steven L., Author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Graduate texts in physics 1868-4521

Graduate Texts in Physics, 1868-4521

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continuum mechanics.

Acoustical engineering.

Oceanography.

Fluid mechanics.

Multibody systems.

Vibration.

Mechanics, Applied.

Continuum Mechanics.

Engineering Acoustics.

Ocean Sciences.

Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations.

Local Subjects:

Continuum Mechanics.

Engineering Acoustics.

Ocean Sciences.

Engineering Fluid Dynamics.

Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXXI, 896 pages 401 illustrations, 81 illustrations in color)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

System Details:

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Summary:

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids. The book includes thorough treatment of vibration of harmonic oscillators, coupled oscillators, isotropic elasticity, and waves in solids including the use of resonance techniques for determination of elastic moduli. Drawing on 35 years of experience teaching introductory graduate acoustics at the Naval Postgraduate School and Penn State, the author presents a hydrodynamic approach to the acoustics of sound in fluids that provides a uniform methodology for analysis of lumped-element systems and wave propagation that can incorporate attenuation mechanisms and complex media. This view provides a consistent and reliable approach that can be extended with confidence to more complex fluids and future applications. Understanding Acoustics opens with a mathematical introduction that includes graphing and statistical uncertainty, followed by five chapters on vibration and elastic waves that provide important results and highlight modern applications while introducing analytical techniques that are revisited in the study of waves in fluids covered in Part II. A unified approach to waves in fluids (id est, liquids and gases) is based on a mastery of the hydrodynamic equations. Part III demonstrates extensions of this view to nonlinear acoustics. Engaging and practical, this book is a must-read for graduate students in acoustics and vibration as well as active researchers interested in a novel approach to the material. Provides graduate-level treatment of acoustics and vibration suitable for use in courses and for self-guided study Highlights fundamental physical principles that can provide independent tests of the validity of numerical solutions and computer simulations Demonstrates use of approximation techniques that greatly simplify the mathematics without substantial decrease in accuracy Includes end-of-chapter problems and "Talk like an Acoustician" boxes to highlight key terms introduced in the text.

Contents:

1. Comfort for the Computationally Crippled

Part I-Vibrations

2. The Simple Harmonic Oscillator

3. String Theory

4. Elasticity of Solids

5. Modes of Bars

6. Membranes, Plates, and Microphones

Part II-Fluids

7. Ideal Gas Laws

8. Non-dissipative Lumped Elements

9. Dissipative Hydrodynamics

10. One-dimensional propagation

11. Reflection, Transmission and Refraction

12. Radiation and Scattering

13. Three-Dimensional Enclosures

14. Attenuation of Sound

PART III - Extensions

15. Nonlinear acoustics

Appendix

Index.

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

9783319499789

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