Introduction to Vibrations and Waves 1st Edition by H. John Pain (PDF)

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Based on the successful multi-edition book “The Physics of Vibrations and Waves” by John Pain, the authors carry over the simplicity and logic of the approach taken in the original first edition with its focus on the patterns underlying and connecting so many aspects of physical behavior, whilst bringing the subject up-to-date so it is relevant to teaching in the 21st century. The transmission of energy by wave propagation is a key concept that has applications in almost every branch of physics with transmitting mediums essentially acting as a continuum of coupled oscillators. The characterization of these simple oscillators in terms of three parameters related to the storage, exchange, and dissipation of energy forms the basis of this book. The text moves naturally on from a discussion of basic concepts such as damped oscillations, diffraction and interference to more advanced topics such as transmission lines and attenuation, wave guides, diffusion, Fourier series, and electromagnetic waves in dielectrics and conductors. Throughout the text the emphasis on the underlying principles helps readers to develop their physics insight as an aid to problem solving. This book provides undergraduate students of physics and engineering with the mathematical tools required for full mastery of the concepts. With worked examples presented throughout the text, as well as the Problem sets concluding each chapter, this textbook will enable students to develop their skills and measure their understanding of each topic step-by-step.A companion website is also available, which includes solutions to chapter problems and PowerPoint slides. Review of “The Physics of Vibrations and Waves 6e“ This is an excellent textbook, full of interesting material clearly explained and fully worthy of being studied by future contributors …” Journal of Sound and Vibration

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Introduction to Vibrations and WavesBased on the successful multi-edition book, The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, by John Pain. Here the authors carry over the simplicity and logic of the approach taken in the original first edition with its focus on the patterns underlying and connecting so many aspects of physical behaviour, whilst bringing the subject up to date so it is relevant to teaching in the 21st century. The transmission of energy by wave propagation is a key concept that has applications in almost every branch of physics with transmitting mediums essentially acting as a continuum of coupled oscillators. The characterisation of these simple oscillators in terms of three parameters related to the storage, exchange and dissipation of energy forms the basis of this book. The text moves naturally from a discussion of basic concepts such as damped oscillations, diffraction and interference, to more advanced topics such as transmission lines and attenuation, wave guides, diffusion, Fourier series, and electromagnetic waves in dielectrics and conductors. Throughout the text, the emphasis on the underlying principles helps readers to develop their physics insight as an aid to problem solving. This book provides undergraduate students of physics and engineering with the mathematical tools required for full mastery of the concepts. With worked examples presented throughout the text, as well as the problem sets concluding each chapter, this textbook will enable students to develop their skills and measure their understanding of each topic step by step. Review of The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, Sixth Edition’This is an excellent textbook, full of interesting material clearly explained and fully worthy of being studied by future contributors …’ Journal of Sound and Vibration From the Back Cover Introduction to Vibrations and WavesBased on the successful multi-edition book, The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, by John Pain. Here the authors carry over the simplicity and logic of the approach taken in the original first edition with its focus on the patterns underlying and connecting so many aspects of physical behaviour, whilst bringing the subject up to date so it is relevant to teaching in the 21st century. The transmission of energy by wave propagation is a key concept that has applications in almost every branch of physics with transmitting mediums essentially acting as a continuum of coupled oscillators. The characterisation of these simple oscillators in terms of three parameters related to the storage, exchange and dissipation of energy forms the basis of this book. The text moves naturally from a discussion of basic concepts such as damped oscillations, diffraction and interference, to more advanced topics such as transmission lines and attenuation, wave guides, diffusion, Fourier series, and electromagnetic waves in dielectrics and conductors. Throughout the text, the emphasis on the underlying principles helps readers to develop their physics insight as an aid to problem solving. This book provides undergraduate students of physics and engineering with the mathematical tools required for full mastery of the concepts. With worked examples presented throughout the text, as well as the problem sets concluding each chapter, this textbook will enable students to develop their skills and measure their understanding of each topic step by step. Review of The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, Sixth Edition’This is an excellent textbook, full of interesting material clearly explained and fully worthy of being studied by future contributors …’ Journal of Sound and Vibration About the Author H. J. Pain Emeritus, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, UK Patricia Rankin Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA Read more

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⭐The book itself is not bad… but I hate the electronic version – maybe it’s because it doesn’t work so great on Kindle for Mac, idk for other apps. It’s so difficult to look up words or jump to a selected page. There are no real pages btw, it’s just a long sequence of texts and graphs that is randomly cut to fit on a page, and every time you change the size of the text, the page is reformatted so I kind of lost my orientation in this book and just stopped using it after a couple of weeks.If you want to buy the electronic version, I would recommend you first download the free sample to see how it manages on your kindle app.As I said before, the book itself is pretty good: it explains things well and there are exercises at the end of each section (but unfortunately there are no solutions to the exercises)

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