MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Mechanical Engineering

1.138J/2.062J/18.376J Wave Propagation
Spring 2012

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References

• General/Elementary:

F. S. Crawford, Berkeley Physics Course, Vol. 3:Waves, McGraw-Hill, 1968.

H. Georgi, The Physics of Waves, Prentice-Hall, 1993.

I. Tolstoy, Wave Propagation, McGraw-Hill, 1973.

• Elastic Waves:

J. D. Achenbach, Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids, North Holland, 1975.

K.F. Graff, Wave Motion in Elastic Solids, Dover, 1975.

J. A. Hudson, The Excitation and Propagation of Elastic Waves, Cambridge U.P., 1980.

H. Kolsky, Stress Waves in Solids, Dover, 1963.

J. Miklowitz, TheTheory of Elastic Waves and Waveguides, North Holland, 1978.

• Waves in Fluids:

M.J. Lighthill, Waves in Fluids, Cambridge U.P., 1978.

C.C. Mei, The Applied Dynamics of Ocean Surface Waves, Wiley-Interscience, 1983.

• Special Topics/Advanced:

J. J. Stoker, Water Waves, Wiley-Interscience, 1957.

G. B. Whitham, Linear and Nonlinear Waves, Wiley-Interscience, 1974.

C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics, John Wiley, 2004.