High frequency and pulse scattering /

High Frequency and Pulse Scattering.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Pierce, Allan D; Thurston, R. N. Robert N
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: Boston :
Publication Dates: 1992.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Physical acoustics, volume 21
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/0893388X/21
Summary: High Frequency and Pulse Scattering.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781483257709
1483257703
Index Number: QC225
CLC: O42
Contents: Front Cover; High Frequency and Pulse Scattering; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Geometrical and Catastrophe Optics Methods in Scattering; 1. Introduction and Overview; 2. Introduction to Geometrical and Physical Optics Methods Relevant to Scattering; 3. Caustics and Associated Diffraction Catastrophes; 4. Waves Transmitted through Fluid and Elastic Scatterers and Glory Scattering; 5. Surface Ray Representations of Scattering by Shells and Other Smooth Objects; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Appendix: Polar and Cartesian Expressions for Principal Curvatures; REFERENCE
Chapter 2. Scattering of Sound Pulses and the Ringing of Target Resonances1. Introduction; 2. Theory of the Scattering of Sound Pulses from Impenetrable Objects; 3. Theory of the Scattering of Sound Pulses from Elastic Objects; 4. Early Experiments with Sound Pulses Scattered by Elastic Objects; 5. Target Resonances and the Singularity Expansion Method; 6. Theory of Surface Wave Pulses, the Ringing of Resonances, and the Determination of the Eigenfrequency Spectrum of Elastic Scatterers; 7. Development and Use of Experimental Methods; REFERENCES; Subject Index.