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Title: Physics of Waves by William C. Elmore, Mark A. Heald ISBN: 0-486-64926-1 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (1 review)

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Summary: Hit and Miss
Comment: Elmore and Heald is a very hit and miss book. The first chapter about simple transverse waves on strings is pretty good except for the confusing treatment of Fourier series (which I can't imagine would help anyone who hasn't seen them before). Chapter 3 on elastic theory was fine too and the EM waves stuff in chapter 8 wasn't bad.

However, the introduction to tensors in chapter 7 and their application to more complex elastic theory was horrible. The dyadic notation they use is really old-fashioned and their presentation is confusing. The stuff in chapter 12 on fourier transforms and integrals wasn't that great either.

More generally, the problem is that it spends too much time diving into excruciating detail without teaching and emphasizing important concepts. Not to mention the fact that there are no example problems.

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