Fundamental Physics of Ultrasound

by Shutilov

Overview

Based on lectures by the author, this volume is designed as a textbook on general ultrasonics. The text provides coverage of the propagation of ultrasonic waves in media with different elastic properties and under conditions close to those encountered in scientific and practical applications of ultrasound. As well as classical material and data from original sources, the book includes experimental data on the velocity of sound in isotropic solids and crystals. Each chapter is complemented by problems and their solutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138404250
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/30/2021
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor Vladimir Alexandrovich Shutilov graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Leningrad State University, and worked there all his life, first as lecturer, senior lecturer, professor and from 1980 as head of the Department of Molecular Physics. He published more than 250 scientific papers, mainly on ultrasonic spectroscopy and solid-state quantum acoustics. In the early sixties he began research on a new phenomenon - acoustic nuclear-magnetic resonance, for which he obtained his doctorate in 1974. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences committees on problems of ultrasonics, radiospectroscopy and the physics of ferroelectric and dielectric materials. He died in 1985. Yelena Vladimirovna Tcharnaya is lecturer in the Faculty of Physics, Leningrad State University. She has published more than 60 scientific papers in the fields of solid-state acoustics, quantum acoustics and the acoustic properties of crystals.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the English Edition, Preface, List of Symbols, I. BASIC EQUATIONS OF THE THEORY OF ELASTICITY, II. PROPAGATION OF ULTRASONIC WAVES IN LIQUIDS AND GASES, III. SINUSOIDAL PLANE WAVES WITH INFINITESIMAL AMPLITUDE, IV. FINITE-AMPLITUDE PLANE WAVES, V. STEADY FORCES ARISING IN AN ULTRASONIC FIELD, VI. ULTRASONIC CAVITATION, VII. REFLECTION, REFRACTION AND SCATTERING OF ULTRASONIC WAVES, VIII. TRANSMISSION OF PLANE WAVES THROUGH LAYERS. ELECTRO ACOUSTICAL ANALOGIES. RADIATION OF PLANE WAVES, IX. SPHERICAL WAVES, X. PROPAGATION OF ULTRASOUND IN AN ISOTROPIC SOLID, XI. PROPAGATION OF ULTRASOUND IN CRYSTALS, PROBLEMS AND THEIR SOLUTIONS, REFERENCES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, SUBJECT INDEX

Editorial Reviews

'The quality of the book is superb...I know of no other book which deals with fundamental physics of ultrasound that provides such a lucid commentary of each basic idea developed.'.

William D. O'Brien

Text, translated from the Russian edition of 1980, permits graduate students and advanced undergraduates to acquire a detailed command of physical and analytical issues relating to the generation and propagation of ultrasound. Ideas are introduced in carefully considered sequence, and the treatment never allowed to become overly complex. Eleven chapters, nicely produced (though perhaps less nicely than the price suggests!), with exercises and solutions appended. Book club and textbook adoption prices are $49 and $45. (NW) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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