WavesElementary college physics course for students majoring in science and engineering. |
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User Review - fredbacon - LibraryThingThis was, without a doubt, one of the worst textbooks and classes of my undergraduate physics career at the University of Texas at Austin. I can't fully express how much of a waste of time this course ... Read full review
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User Review - nealjking - LibraryThingCrawford's book applies the ideas of wave phenomena to all kinds of physical phenomena. It's not terribly elegant, but the range of areas covered displays a lot of imagination. The book is actually a lot of fun. Read full review
Contents
Free Oscillations of Systems with Many Degrees | 47 |
Forced Oscillations | 102 |
Traveling Waves | 155 |
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amplitude angle angular antenna approximation assume atoms average axis beam beats Brewster's angle bulb called charge compared completely component consider constant continuous contributions corresponding coupled damping dependence direction dispersion relation displacement distance driving electromagnetic electrons energy equal equations equilibrium example field follows force Fourier frequency function given gives glass harmonic hold Home experiment incident intensity interference length lens light linear look mass means measure medium mode modulation motion moving obtain oscillation pattern pendulums phase phase velocity piece plane wave plate polarization polaroid position propagation radiation reflection region relative resonance result Show shown single slit solution sound space square standing waves string superposition Suppose surface tion transmission transverse traveling waves tube turns unit wavelength width zero
Bibliographic information
| Title | Waves Volume 3 of Berkeley physics course Waves, Frank S. Crawford |
| Author | Frank S. Crawford |
| Editor | Frank S. Crawford |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 4 Jun 2009 |
| ISBN | 0070048606, 9780070048607 |
| Length | 600 pages |
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