Understanding Acoustics - (Graduate Texts in Physics) 2nd Edition by Steven L Garrett (Hardcover)

This comprehensive open-access textbook provides a uniform methodology for analyzing lumped-element systems and wave propagation, accommodating dissipative mechanisms and geometrically complex media.

With over 40 years of teaching experience, the author presents modern applications, analytical techniques, and approximation strategies that are revised in subsequent chapters describing all aspects of wave generation, transmission, scattering, and reception in fluids.

Problems integrate multiple concepts and include experimental data to provide experience in choosing optimal strategies for extracting experimental results and their uncertainties.

The text also includes fundamental physical principles like adiabatic invariance, similitude, the Kramers-Kronig relations, and the equipartition theorem, providing independent tests of results obtained from numerical solutions, commercial software, and simulations.

Whether you're a student or professional in the field of acoustics, this textbook is an essential resource for anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding of the subject.