Texts and Other References
Please feel free to send Kyle Forinash any reference material you feel would be a useful addition to this list: kforinas@ius.edu,
Software:
- All simulations and the source code can be downloaded from Compadre.
- Java Applets (called Physlets) and JavaScripts from Wolfgang Christian and the group at Davidson College.
- The Easy Java Simulations package created by Francisco Esquembre.
- The Open Source Physics Project.
Books:
- The Science of Ocean Waves, J. B. Zirker, John
Hopkins University Press, 2013.
- Interesting non-technical discussion of ocean waves, including a lot of history of the development of the theory of waves.
- Sound: An Interactive eBook, Kyle Forinash, 2012.
- Physics of Solitons, Thierry Dauxois and Michel Peyrard, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Excellent introduction to solitons; includes discrete cases of nonlinear waves.
- The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, 5th
ed. H. J. Pain, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- Very complete standard treatment of wave including nonlinear waves, 2D waves.
- Linear and Nonlinear Waves, G. B. Whitham, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
- Nonlinear Science, A. Scott, Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Simulations in Dynamics, T. P. Weissert, Springer, 1997.
- Wave Physics, Oscillations -- Solitons -- Chaos, S.
Nettel, Springer 1995.
- Standard wave topics plus solitons and Chaos.
- Waves and Optics Simulations, Antonelli, Christian, Fisher, Giles, James, Stoner, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
- Principles of Vibrations and Sound, T. D. Rossing, N.
H. Fletcher, Springer, 1995.
- A classic introduction to sound waves in the context of musical instruments.
- Waves Called Solitons, M. Remoissenet,
Springer-Verlag, 1994.
- A very good short introduction to solitons.
- Vibration and Waves in Physics 3rd ed., Iain G. Main, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
- The Physics of Waves, Howard Georgi, Prentice Hall, 1993.
- Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere,
Vladimir Petviashvili and Oleg Pokhotelov, Gordon and Breach 1992.
- Two and 3D solitons, a model of Jupiter's red spot.
- Solitons: an introduction, P. G. Drazin, R. S. Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
- Fundamentals of Waves and Oscillations, K.U. Ingard, Cambridge University Press,1988.
- Standard wave topics.
- Introduction to Wave Phenomena, Akira Hirose and Karl E. Lonngren John Wiley and
Sons, 1985.
- Standard wave topics. Various waves in different media.
- Solitons, G. Elenberger, Springer-Verlag 1983.
- Inverse Scattering Transformation.
- Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves, and Radiation, George Bekefi and Alan H. Barrett,
MIT press, 1977.
- Standard classical E&M text plus: Oscillators (including nonlinear terms), waves (including guided waves) and wave optics (theoretical).
- Physics of Waves, W. C. Elmore and M. A. Heald, Dover Publications, 1969.
- Waves (Berkeley Physics Course), Frank S. Crawford, Jr. McGraw Hill, 1968.
- Still one of the best introductions to waves.
- Vibrations and Waves, A. P French, W.W. Norton & Co. 1966.
- Standard wave topics plus phase diagrams, normal modes of coupled oscillators and boundary behavior of waves.
- Bores, Breakers, Waves & Wakes, R. A. R. Tricker,
Elsevier, 1964.
- Tidal motion explained. Pictures of wakes, waves and bores.
- Waves, Charles A Coulson, John Wiley & Sons. 1955.
- Standard wave topics, waves on membranes.