High frequency and pulse scattering /
High Frequency and Pulse Scattering.
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Group Author: | ; |
Published: |
Academic Press,
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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. |