Waves in Mechanical Systems

Richard K. Cooper and Claudio Pellegrini
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Richard K. Cooper: Formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory
Claudio Pellegrini: University of California at Los Angeles

Chapter Chapter 8 in Modern Analytic Mechanics, 1999, pp 175-208 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Of all of nature’s phenomena, the ones that we are most surrounded by in our daily lives are wave phenomena. Much of the time we are unaware of the waves passing around and through us — such as radio and television waves and sound waves. We perhaps more often notice the waves on bodies of water or the effect of waves in the atmosphere as evidenced by cloud patterns. We surely do not detect the matter waves described by quantum theory, but they nonetheless have a profound effect on our lives. Wave motion is everywhere, and an understanding of wave phenomena is essential to a real understanding of our world. Such phenomena as reflection, transmission, and refraction are part of the rich array of wave motion that we propose to explore in this chapter. We will proceed by first studying waves in a single dimension, then waves in two dimensions, and finally we will treat three-dimensional waves.

Keywords: Wave Equation; Mechanical System; Wave Speed; Stress Wave; Wave Motion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-5867-2_8

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