Understanding Acoustics: An Experimentalist's View of Sound and Vibration

by Steven L. Garrett

Book Overview

This open access textbook, like Rayleigh's classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly distinguish complex variables, and there is a new section...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030447863
• ISBN13: 9783030447861
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 783 Pages
• Weight: 3.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"