Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics

This textbook - incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises - is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textb...

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Main Authors: Bóna, Andrej, Slawinski, M.
Format: Book
Published: World Scientific Publishin Co. Pte Ltd 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15098
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description This textbook - incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises - is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textbooks for a coherent treatment of all topics. The authors’ emphasis and extremely good presentation of the theory of characteristics, which defines the rays, accentuate the beauty and versatility of this theory. To this end, the rigour of the formulation - by a pure mathematician’s standards - is downplayed to highlight the physical meaning and to make the subject accessible to a wider audience. The authors describe in detail the theory of characteristics for different types of differential equations, the applications to wave propagation in different types of media, and phenomena such as caustics.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-150982019-09-10T06:25:33Z Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics Bóna, Andrej Slawinski, M. This textbook - incorporated with many illuminating examples and exercises - is aimed at graduate students of physical sciences and engineering. The purpose is to provide a background of physics and underlying mathematics for the concept of rays, filling the gap between mathematics and physics textbooks for a coherent treatment of all topics. The authors’ emphasis and extremely good presentation of the theory of characteristics, which defines the rays, accentuate the beauty and versatility of this theory. To this end, the rigour of the formulation - by a pure mathematician’s standards - is downplayed to highlight the physical meaning and to make the subject accessible to a wider audience. The authors describe in detail the theory of characteristics for different types of differential equations, the applications to wave propagation in different types of media, and phenomena such as caustics. 2011 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15098 10.1142/9456 World Scientific Publishin Co. Pte Ltd restricted
spellingShingle Bóna, Andrej
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Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title_full Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title_fullStr Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title_full_unstemmed Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title_short Wavefronts and Rays As Characteristics and Asymptotics
title_sort wavefronts and rays as characteristics and asymptotics
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15098