Vibrations and Waves / Edition 1

by A.P. French

Overview

The M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series is the result of a program of careful study, planning, and development that began in 1960.

The Education Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (formerly the Science Teaching Center) was established to study the process of instruction, aids thereto, and the learning process itself, with special reference to science teaching at the university level. Generous support from a number of foundations provided the means for assembling and maintaining an experienced staff to co-operate with members of the Institute's Physics Department in the examination, improvement, and development of physics curriculum materials for students planning careers in the sciences.

After careful analysis of objectives and the problems involved, preliminary versions of textbooks were prepared, tested through classroom use at M.I.T. and other institutions, re-evaluated, rewritten, and tried again. Only then were the final manuscripts undertaken.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393099362
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/17/1971
Series:	M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	330
Sales rank:	925,253
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Anthony Philip French (November 19, 1920 – February 3, 2017) was a British professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Brighton, England. French was a graduate of Cambridge University, receiving his B.A. in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1948, both in physics. In 1942, he began working on the British effort to build an atomic bomb (codenamed Tube Alloys) at the Cavendish Laboratory.

Table of Contents

1 Periodic motions 2 The superposition of periodic motions 3 The free vibrations of physical system 4 Forced vibrations and resonance 5 Coupled oscillators and normal modes 6 Normal modes of continuous systems. Fourier analysis 7 Progressive Waves 8 Boundary effects and interference