The Physics Of Waves And Oscillations

Chapter 1 Free Oscillations of Systems with one Degree of Freedom: Simple Harmonic Motion
Chapter 2 Superposition of Harmonic Oscillations
Chapter 3 Free Damped Oscillations
Chapter 4 Forced Oscillations and Resource
Chapter 5 Coupled Oscillations
Chapter 6 Normal Modes of Continuous Systems: Fourier Method
Chapter 7 Wave Motion
Chapter 8 Reflection and Standing Waves
Chapter 9 Modulations, Wave Group and Pulses
Index

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