A First Course in Vibrations and Waves

by Samiullah, Mohammad

• ISBN13: 9780198729785
• ISBN10: 0198729782
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-10-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mohammad Samiullah, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Physics, Truman State University

Professor Mohammad Samiullah has taught introductory and advanced physics for 22 years at Truman State University, USA, where he is currently Professor of Physics. He has two Ph.D.'s from Boston University, USA, one in Chemistry and the other in Physics. He was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore before joining Truman. He also has a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Professor Samiullah has considerable experience with research in Physics Education and has published on collaborative learning methods in physics teaching. He was awarded a Truman Fellow and a Jepson Fellow at Truman State that recognized innovative teaching methods. His research contributions in physics have spanned from Quantum Field Theory to Solid State Physics and Nonlinear Optics.

Table of Contents

I: Preliminaries
1. Review of Mechanics and Complex Algebra
II: Vibrations
2. Free Oscillations - One Degree of Freedom
3. Coupled Oscillations - Two Degrees of Freedom
4. Systems with Many Degrees of Freedom
5. Driven Oscillations
III: Waves
6. Traveling Waves in One Dimension
7. Waves in Three-Dimensional Space
8. Reflection and Transmission of Waves
9. Interference
10. Diffraction