Fundamentals of Wave Phenomena

Akira Hirose received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Yokohama National University, and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, all in electrical engineering. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he joined the Plasma Physics Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan, where he is Professor and Director. He has authored and coauthored more than 300 journal articles. He is a Fellow of APS, IEEE, and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science), and has been Canada Research Chair since 2001. Karl E. Lonngren received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa since 1965. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 journal articles and 5 technical books. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the APS and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Citation from the University of Wisconsin.

Chapter 1: Review of Oscillations
Chapter 2: Wave Motion
Chapter 3: Some Mathematics
Chapter 4: Fundamentals of Mechanical Waves
Chapter 5: SoundWaves in Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Chapter 6: Wave Reflection and Standing Waves
Chapter 7: Spherical Waves, Waves in a Nonuniform Media, and Multidimensional Waves
Chapter 8: Doppler Effect of Sound Waves and Shock Waves
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 10: Radiation of Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 11: Interference and Diffraction
Chapter 12: Geometrical Optics
Chapter 13: Particle Nature of Light
Chapter 14: Fourier Analyses and Laplace Transformation
Chapter 15: Nonlinear Waves, Solitons, Shocks, and Chaos
Appendix A: Constants and Units
Appendix B: Trigonometric Identities, Calculus, and Laplace Transforms
Appendix C: References
Appendix D: Answers to Selected Problems