Student''s Guide to Waves

Written to complement course textbooks, this book focuses on the topics that undergraduates in physics and engineering find most difficult.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Wave fundamentals; 2. The wave equation; 3. Wave components; 4. The mechanical wave equation; 5. The electromagnetic wave equation; 6. The quantum wave equation; References; Index.

About the author

Daniel Fleisch is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University, where he specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. He is the author of several Student's Guide books, including most recently A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy (Cambridge, 2013).Laura Kinnaman is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Morningside College, where she carries out computational research in chemical physics and organizes the Physics Club.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Fleisch, Daniel (Wittenberg University Fleisch, Daniel A. Kinnaman Fleisch, Daniel Kinnaman Fleisch, Laura Kinnaman, Kinnaman Laura
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9781107054868
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05486-8
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Student's Guides
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Mathematical physics, Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics