January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
9h 47m
English
Content preview from Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves
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Index
A, B
absorption
and attenuation of waves, 141-143
coefficient, 141
spectroscopy, 104
adiabatic constant, 170
air wedge-shaped film, 284
amplitude splitting, 279
amplitude, 2
complex, 6
angular frequency, 2
cut-off, 160, 161, 321, 324, 325, 327, 330, 332, 334, 335
normal (or proper), 3, 27, 29, 32, 83, 307, 310, 312, 315
angular momentum density, 139, 210-212, 218
anharmonic oscillators, 25-26, (P1.22) 45
anti-resonance, (P3.9) 110
aperture splitting, 279
approximation methods, (P1.22 and P1.23) 45, (P1.24) 46
attenuated waves, 140-143, 150, (P4.18) 156, (P5.21) 199, 215, 228
attenuation
coefficient, 141, 142-143, 215, 228, 256, 258, 324, 330, 334
in decibels, 142
bandwidth, 67
boundary conditions, 128, 187, 203, 206, 238, 241, 244, 246, 249, 308, 322, 326
Bragg law, 296
Brewster polarization, 224, 251, 253
Brillouin zone, 160
C
capillary waves, 190
chain of masses, 159-161, 166-167
chaos, 99
characteristic equation, 15, 27, 31, 36, 37
coherence
length, 280
time, 279
complete
set of functions, 316
compressibility, 165
compression modulus, 164
Compton effect, 218
conduction electrons, 202, 209, (P6.8) 232, (P6.10) 233, (P6.13) 234
conductivity, 202
conductor, good, 217
conservation
of energy, 37, 89, 103, 136, 137, 239-240, 246, 252
of mass equation, 186
contrast, ...
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