Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics) Books

Der Band beschreibt die Entstehung, Ausbreitung, Abstrahlung und Messung von Körperschall - wichtige Themen für die Lärmminderung bei Maschinen oder Gebäuden, aber auch bei der Messung mechanischer Materialdaten. In der 3. Auflage wurde der Band erneuert...

Verkehrslärm ist lästig und leistungsmindernd; er birgt darüber hinaus auch gesundheitliche Risiken. Die kontinuierliche Zunahme des Verkehrs entfacht daher gesellschaftliche Konflikte um Mobilität trotz bestehender...

This book treats important topics in "Acoustic Echo and Noise Control" and reports the latest developments. Methods for enhancing the quality of transmitted speech signals are gaining growing attention in universities and in...

Praktische Probleme der Maschinenakustik sind komplex. Aus diesem Grund wird im vorliegenden Buch vorrangig die indirekte Kette der Schallabstrahlung behandelt. Es werden Berechnungsgleichungen, akustische Messverfahren und...

This book provides current, comprehensive, and clear explanations of the physics behind medical and biomedical applications of shock waves. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is one of the greatest medical advances of our time, and its techniques and...

This book comprises twelve articles which cover a range of topics from musical instrument acoustics to issues in psychoacoustics and sound perception as well as neuromusicology. In addition to experimental methods and data acquisition, modeling (such as...

This book is a collection of papers presented at Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures 2017 - AVMS 2017 - highlighting the current trends and state-of-the-art developments in the field. It covers a broad range of topics, such as noise and...

This book describes in detail the physical and mathematical foundations of ultrasonic phased array measurements. The book uses linear systems theory to develop a comprehensive model of the signals and images that can be formed with phased arrays...

This book explores the interactions between science and music in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. It examines and evaluates the work of Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck, Shohé Tanaka, and Adriaan Fokker, leading physicists and...

The first Asia-Pacific Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics took place from August 23 to August 28, 1999, at the Noda campus of the Sci­ ence University of Tokyo in Noda-city and Sawayaka Chiba Kenmin Plaza in ...

This textbook on Underwater Acoustics has a structure that is more organic than logical. It thereby unifies diverse areas of research, including topics of signal processing, the sonar equation, sources and receivers, scattering and reverberation, wave...

The book provides an accessible overview of audio signal processing, and enables readers to design and write algorithms for the analysis, synthesis, and manipulation of musical and acoustic signals for any programming language. It provides an...

In this comprehensive guide, Brixen takes the reader through the complex and confusing aspects of audio metering, imparting the knowledge and skills needed to utilize optional signal levels and produce high-quality audio.Covering all aspects of this...

This book highlights the mathematical and physical properties of acoustical sources with singularities located in the complex plane and presents the application of such special elements to solve acoustical radiation and scattering problems. Sources...

This book systematically introduces readers to the fundamental physics and a broad range of applications of acoustic levitation, one of the most promising techniques for the container-free handling of small solid particles and liquid droplets. As it does...

This book highlights time reversal acoustics, techniques based on the symmetry properties of acoustic fields. It has the unique feature that the first eleven chapters of the book are on the indepth studies of the theories of time reversal acoustics. The...

This book presents a technical solution to ensuring the noise immunity of navigation systems in civil aviation aircrafts at the stages of their terminal procedures. It highlights instrumental precision approaches to landing and landing in...

This book presents articles from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2019 (WCAE-2019) held at Guangdong, China. The latest research and applications of acoustic emission (AE) are explored, with a particular emphasis on detecting and processing AE...

This book addresses the nature of sound, focusing on the characteristics of sound waves in the context of time structures. This time domain approach provides an informative and intuitively understandable description of various acoustic topics such as...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the basics of Hindustani music and the associated signal analysis and technological developments. It begins with an in-depth introduction to musical signal analysis and its current applications, and then...

This book presents the topic of underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging covering the theory, algorithms and system design. It summarizes recent advances in wideband and ultra-wideband underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging, which will be very...

These proceedings are a collection of 16 selected scientific papers and reviews by distinguished international experts that were presented at the 4th Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference (PRUAC), held in Hangzhou, China in October 2013. The topics...

On the assessment of geoacoustic parameters in shallow water environments / Jean-Claude Le Gac, Yann Stéphan, Thierry Garlan, N. Weber.- Bayesian inversion of seabed reflection data / Stan E. Dosso, Charles W. Holland- Backpropagation techniques in ocean...

Vibration and structural acoustics analysis has become an essential requirement for high-quality structural and mechanical design in order to assure acoustic comfort and the integrity, reliability and fail-safe behavior of structures and machines. The...

The theory of partial differential equations is a wide and rapidly developing branch of contemporary mathematics. Problems related to partial differential equations of order higher than one are so diverse that a general theory...

Multibody dynamics started with the ideas of Jacob and Daniel Bernoul­ li and later on with d'Alembert's principle. In establishing a solution for the problem of the center of oscillation for a two-mass-pendulum Jacob Ber­...

Rapid growth of the mobile communication market has triggered extensive research on the bulk as well as surface acoustic wave devices in the last decade. Quite a few important results on the modeling and simulation of Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR)...

1 The turbulence problem: 1.1 The first interpretation; 1.2 The next approaches; 1.3 A new approach;2 Fluid motion: 2.1 Equations of fluid motion; 2.2 Vorticity; 2.3 Wave equation and incompressibility conditions;3 Distribution of parameters in viscous...

This book is written for scientists and engineers whose work involves wave reflec­ tion or transmission. Most of the book is written in the language of electromagnetic theory, but, as the title suggests, many of the results can...

Approach your problem from the right It isn't that they can't see end and begin with the answers. the solution. Then one day, perhaps you will find It is that they can't see the the final question. problem. G.K. Chesterton. The...

It is with great emotion that we present here this volume dedicated to the memory of Bernard Jouvet, Docteur es Sciences, Directeur des Recher­ ches at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique. The life and the career...

The book aims to present current knowledge concerning the propagation of electro­ magnetic waves in a homogeneous magnetoplasma for which temperature effects are unimportant. It places roughly equal emphasis on the radio and...

In this volume, the shock compression technology of materials is described in parallel with the latest research results and their background. In the past, this type of technology was developed in connection with military...

This second edition provides comprehensive information on electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs), from the theory and physical principles of EMATs to the construction of systems and their applications to scientific and industrial ultrasonic...

The relevance of commutator methods in spectral and scattering theory has been known for a long time, and numerous interesting results have been ob­ tained by such methods. The reader may find a description and references in...

It is apparent from the history of science, that few-body problems have an interdis­ ciplinary character. Newton, after solving the two-body problem so brilliantly, tried his hand at the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Here he failed in...

The Thirteenth European Conference on Few-Body Problems in Phys­ ics (European Few-Body Problems XIII) was held at the Elba Internation­ al Physics Centre (EIPC) in Marciana Marina, Isola d'Elba, Italy, during September 9-14,...

From the Contents: Basics - Noise in Triodes - Noise in Components and Other General Noise Effects - The Common Cathode Gain Stage (CCS) - CCS Mathcad Worksheets - The Common Anode gain Stage (Cathode Follower CF) - CF Mathcad Worksheets - The Common...

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The acoustic quality of a concert hall has frequently posed a mysterious puzzle, namely, what physical aspects of the sound field can produce superior sound for the listener. The author has been probing for more than...