A Textbook of Sound

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The book has been written for the students of undergraduate Science and Engineering courses. This course finds lots of applications, rights from mechanics-sound, optics, solid state physics, electrodynamics-to electronics. The chapters covers a vast number of topics like free, forced, damped oscillations, normal modes of vibrations, sound waves, overdamped and ballistic oscillations, LCR Circuits, etc. In every chapter, the topics are dealt with in details followed by illustrative solved examples and unsolved exercises. Some previous experience with a calculus course in which differential equations have been discussed is highly desirable. However, the details of the steps in arriving at final solutions are worked out in details. The book, thus, acts like any textbook and at the same time no help-book is needed for further details.

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P. K. Mittal, M.Sc. (Maths, Physics), Ph.D., was the Head of the Department of Mathematics at Pt. L.M.S.Government P.G. College, Rishikesh. He was teaching postgraduate and undergraduate students for more than 26 years. He was also guiding research in applied mathematics and had produced 11 Ph. Ds. He was editor of SCM Journal of Mathematical Sciences and the executive editor of Indian Journal of National Sciences. He was also on the Editorial Board of Acta Ciencia India. He had to his credit more than 50 research papers and several books. Jai Dev Anand was teaching in the Department of Physics and Astrophysics for more than thirty years. During those years, he had been teaching courses both at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level ranging from Mathematical Physics, Mechanics, Classical Electrodynamics, Quantum Field Theory and Particle Physics, etc. In the early stages of his career, he took classes for undergraduate students in B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics. The author himself was an undergraduate and then a graduate student of Delhi University. In 1996, he got Ph.D. Degree in Theoretical Physics. From time to time, he has been attending national and international seminars and conferences on high energy Physics and Astrophysics. During the last couple of years, he has been actively working in models of Neutron stars and Neutrino astrophysics.