Preface to the Fourth Edition
This book maintains the unique scope and character of previous editions. It provides revised, restructured, and updated coverage of many aspects of ultrasonics and its applications. The diverse family of activities that leverage the science foundations for physical acoustics and applications, and which form the basis for several multi-billion dollar industries, is presented. It seeks to link many aspects of the field to their historic development. The time since the third edition was completed in 2010 has seen advances in the understanding of the basic science of some phenomena, particularly those involving high-power applications. There have been advances in transducer technologies, particularly computer-based ...
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