Waves and oscillations in nature : an introduction /: an introduction. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: A. Satya Narayanan, Swapan K. Saha.
• Authors: Narayanan, A. Satya; Saha, Swapan K
• Contents: Introduction to Waves and Oscillations; Preamble; What Is a Wave; Harmonic Wave; Monochromatic Fields; Intensity of Waves; Interference; Diffraction Electromagnetic Waves ; Electrostatics; Magnetostatics; Time-Varying Fields; Maxwell’s Equations; Energy Flux of Electrodynamics; Electromagnetic Field Equations; Antennas Waves in a Uniform Media ; Introduction; Simple Harmonic Oscillation; Damped Oscillations; Coupled Oscillations; One-Dimensional Wave Equation: D’Alembert’s Solution; Helmholtz Equation; Normal Mode Eigenvalue Problem; Longitudinal Waves; Traveling Waves; Dispersive Waves; Solitons Hydrodynamic Waves ; Introduction; Basic Equations; Small-Amplitude Waves; Gravity Waves; Linear Capillary and Gravity Waves; Surface Waves Generated by a Local Disturbance in the Field; Klein–Gordon Equation ; Shallow Water Waves; Boussinesq Equation; Finite Amplitude Shallow Water Waves (Nonlinear Aspects); Plane Waves in a Layer of Constant Depth; Poincaré and Kelvin Waves; Lamb and Rayleigh Waves; Inertial Waves; Rossby Waves; Forced Stationary Waves in the Atmosphere; Solitary Waves: KdV Equation MHD Waves in a Uniform Media; Basic Equations; Sound Waves; Alfven Waves; Shear Alfven Waves; Compressional Alfven Waves; Magneto Acoustic Waves; Internal and Magneto Acoustic Gravity Waves; Phase Mixing of Waves; Resonant Absorption of Waves; Nonlinear Aspects MHD Waves in a Nonuniform Media ; Waves at a Magnetic Interface; Surface and Interfacial Waves; Tangential Discontinuity with Inclined Fields and Flows; Two-Mode Structure of Alfven Surface Waves; Magneto Acoustic-Gravity Surface Waves with Flows; Waves in a Magnetic Slab; Negative Energy Waves; Waves in Cylindrical Geometries; Slender Flux Tube Equations; Waves in Untwisted and Twisted Tubes; Applications to Coronal Waves; Nonlinear Aspects Shock Waves ; Introduction; Discontinuities in Surfaces; Normal Shock Waves; Oblique Shock Waves; Blast Waves: Similarity Solution of Taylor–Sedov; Weak Shock Waves; Waves in a Polytropic Gas; An Application of Shock Waves in the Sun; Shock Waves in Collisionless Plasmas; Shocks in MHD; Nonlinear Studies Waves in Optics ; Optical Phenomena; Nonmonochromatic Fields; Emission of Wave-Trains; Polarization of Plane Monochromatic Waves Plasma Waves ; What Is a Plasma?; Plasma Parameters; Electrostatic Waves in Magnetized Plasma; Waves in a Cold Plasma; Plasma Waves (Warm)-Langmuir Waves; Ion-Acoustic Waves; Waves in Nonhomogeneous Plasmas; Quasilinear Theory for Nonhomogeneous Plasmas; Nonlinear Waves in Plasmas Fluid and Plasma Instabilities ; Introduction; Stability of Parallel Shear Flows; Taylor–Goldstein Equation; Orr–Sommerfeld Equation; Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) Instability; Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) Instability; Parametric Instability; Two-Stream Instability; Interchange (Flute) Instability; Sausage Instability; Kink Instability; Ballooning Instability Appendix A: Typical Tables; Appendix B: Vector Operators Bibliography Index Exercises appear at the end of each chapter.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 531.1133; Waves; Oscillations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466590946
• Related ISBNs: 9781466590939
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