The physics of oscillations and waves : with applications in electricty and mechanics / Bloch, Ingram.

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Undamped and undriven oscillators and LC circuits -- The effect of damping -- Sinusoidally driven oscillators and circuit loops -- Sums of sinusoidal forces or EMF's -- Fourier Analysis -- integration in the complex plane -- Evaluation of certain fourier integrals -causality, green's functions -- Electrical networks -- Nonlinear oscillations -- Coupled oscillators without damping- lagrange's equations -- Matrices- roations- eigenvalues and eigenvectors-normal coordinates -- Some examples of normal coordinates -- Finite one-dimensional periodi systems, differnce equations -- Infinite on-dimensonal periodic sysytems-Characteristics impedance --Continuous systems, wave equation, lagrangian density, Hamilton's principle -- Continous systems, applied forces,interacting systems -- Other linear problems -- Nonlinear waves.