Waves, Acoustics and Vibration

The Severn Bore forming below the cliffs at Newnham

• Simple Harmonic Motion
• The Lore of Waves
• Sound Waves
• Acoustic Radiation
• Pipes and Resonators--Circuit Analogies
• The Guns of Barisal and anomalous sound propagation.
• Diffraction
• Waves in Three Dimensions
• The Auditory Sense
• Vibrations of Air Columns
• Vibrations of Stretched Strings
• Theory of the String Telegraph
• Vibrations of Flat Things
• Waves in Solids
• Surface Waves on Liquids
• Musical Scales (For the nonmusician)