S Chand A Text Book Oscillations,Waves & Acoustics by M Ghosh & D Bhattacharya

Table of Contents

• Sound and its character : Introduction
• Simple harmonic motion
• Motion of a simple pendulum
• Projection of uniform circular motion
• Free, damped and forced vibration
• Motion due to a constant force
• Coupled vibration
• Coupled vibration of two loads attached to a string under tension
• Fourier analysis
• Fourier’s theorem and fourier series
• Evaluation of the constants of the fourier series
• Evaluation of the constants of the fourier series
• Anharmonic (Asymmetric) vibration and combinational tones
• Large displacement vibration
• The asymmetric vibration
• Wave motion
• Wave motion in an elastic medium
• General equation of wave motion
• Reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, stationary wave, beats, phase velocity and group velocity, doppler effect
• Velocity of Acoustic Waves (Longitudinal and Transverse Wave)
Velocity
• of plane longitudinal waves
• Transverse vibration of stretched string and stringed musical instruments
• Frequency of vibrating string