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Title Details:
Wave Physics
Other Titles: Audio Engineering and Acoustics
Authors: Papadogiannis, Nektarios
Bakarezos, Efthymios
Reviewer: Benis, Emmanouil
Subject: NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > PHYSICS > GENERAL PHYSICS
Keywords:
Oscillations
Waves
Sound
Laboratory Exercises
Description:
Abstract:
The aim of this book is to introduce the basic concepts of wave physics with examples, applications and laboratory exercises. These concepts are essential at the introductory undergraduate level of Departments of sound engineering and acoustics and, broadly, Departments involved in music technology and the sound arts. The first chapters introduce the concepts of kinetic and dynamical body theory using basic principles of calculus. Then the basic principles of periodic motions, simple harmonic oscillations, their superposition in one and two dimensions, damped and forced oscillations and the phenomenon of resonance, are presented. Then an introduction to wave physics is given with the definition, the basic physical quantities of waves and the basic types of wave perturbations. The concepts of the wave equation for one-dimensional waves, their velocity, energy and power are introduced. The concepts of normal modes of oscillation and characteristic frequencies (eigenfrequencies) are also introduced. This is followed by an analysis of basic wave phenomena involving wave superposition and wave interference, Fourier wave analysis, standing wave generation and resonance, the study of waves in a bounded string, and the Doppler effect. For the particular case of sound waves, the concepts of displacement waves and acoustic pressure waves, their supeposition in tubes and membranes, the types of sound waves in terms of source and propagation symmetry (plane, cylindrical and spherical) in free space are presented and the concept of sound intensity and the decibel (dB) intensity scale are introduced. Finally, complete examples of laboratory exercises based on commercially available equipment are given, which aim at understanding the aforementioned concepts.
Linguistic Editors: Nika, Eleni
Type: Undergraduate textbook
Creation Date: 22-10-2015
Item Details:
ISBN 978-960-603-050-5
License: Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-875
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/189
Bibliographic Reference: Papadogiannis, N., & Bakarezos, E. (2015). Wave Physics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-875
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Introduction to Kinetics
2. Introduction to Dynamics
3. Oscillations
4. Introduction to Wave Mechanics
5. Wave phenomena
6. Sound waves
7. Basics of laboratory measurements and analysis
8. Laboratory exercises
9. Appendix of mathematical concepts & laboratory instruments
Number of pages 152
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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