--- product_id: 48481281 title: "Vibrations and Waves" price: "12854 Ft" currency: HUF in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hu/products/48481281-vibrations-and-waves store_origin: HU region: Hungary --- # Vibrations and Waves **Price:** 12854 Ft **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Vibrations and Waves - **How much does it cost?** 12854 Ft with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hu](https://www.desertcart.hu/products/48481281-vibrations-and-waves) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy Vibrations and Waves First Edition by A. P. French (ISBN: 9788123909141) from desertcart's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Review: Great for first-time exposition - A concise book meant for early undergraduates - no mathematics beyond basic calculus is assumed, all the derivations are clearly shown. Especially good is a thorough discussion of the complex numbers and their utilisation in the harmonic oscillator (and related) problems. A great thing is including a lot of pictures of experiments exhibiting the phenomena being discussed (if only to make one look them up on youtube). The book also includes a short (but great) section on Fourier Analysis - not a thorough treatment, but being familiar with this physical interpretation of FA (modes of a vibrating string) proved useful when I started a FA course later. A wealth of exercises with solutions is included. Also, the Indian copy is really bad - the pages are so thin the ink on the other side is visible. This is a shame as the pictures are sometimes almost undecipherable. Review: A Timeless Classic - A. P. French is a real Teacher, with a capital "T". This book is part of the MIT Introductory Physics series that has three other titles by the same outstanding author: "Newtonian Mechanics", "Special Relativity" and "An Introduction to Quantum Physics" (coauthored with E. F. Taylor, yes the Taylor of Wheeler and Taylor's "Spacetime Physics"). A set of books that combine clarity of exposition with historical notes on the development of physics. One might be put off by the fact this book is more than forty years old. Don't! This is a little gem of clarity and synthesis that stood the test of time. It actually goes to the roots of the physical principles of the oscillatory motion and does not give anything for granted. Yes, the main emphasis is on the oscillations of mechanical systems, but this is not necessarily a con. As a matter of fact, it helps the reader to develop a more intuitive view of the phenomena described while they can still be translated into other domain's by means of physical analogies. This book is a must have. One note on the publisher: be warned that the latest paperback editions by Norton look like xeroxes of the original book: the pictures with the gray background show bands and dithering as if they had been scanned at very low resolution with a cheap scanner. If you can, find a used copy of the old hardbound edition. The 'old days' quality is much much better than today's standard. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 401,345 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 355 in Engineering Physics 419 in Applied Mathematics (Books) 433 in Mechanical & Materials Engineering | | Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (359) | | Dimensions | 15.49 x 24.13 x 1.52 cm | | Edition | First Edition | | ISBN-10 | 8123909144 | | ISBN-13 | 978-8123909141 | | Item weight | 239 g | | Language | English | | Part of series | Mit Introductory Physics | | Print length | 198 pages | | Publication date | 1 Dec. 2003 | | Publisher | CBS Publishers & Distributors | ## Images ![Vibrations and Waves - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+f2fVBSNL.jpg) ![Vibrations and Waves - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61lnopiyBEL.jpg) ![Vibrations and Waves - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61+XjZK9qUL.jpg) ![Vibrations and Waves - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/6152B7O6-6L.jpg) ![Vibrations and Waves - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61iPCsXyGuL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for first-time exposition *by J***A on 8 June 2016* A concise book meant for early undergraduates - no mathematics beyond basic calculus is assumed, all the derivations are clearly shown. Especially good is a thorough discussion of the complex numbers and their utilisation in the harmonic oscillator (and related) problems. A great thing is including a lot of pictures of experiments exhibiting the phenomena being discussed (if only to make one look them up on youtube). The book also includes a short (but great) section on Fourier Analysis - not a thorough treatment, but being familiar with this physical interpretation of FA (modes of a vibrating string) proved useful when I started a FA course later. A wealth of exercises with solutions is included. Also, the Indian copy is really bad - the pages are so thin the ink on the other side is visible. This is a shame as the pictures are sometimes almost undecipherable. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Timeless Classic *by P***O on 28 September 2013* A. P. French is a real Teacher, with a capital "T". This book is part of the MIT Introductory Physics series that has three other titles by the same outstanding author: "Newtonian Mechanics", "Special Relativity" and "An Introduction to Quantum Physics" (coauthored with E. F. Taylor, yes the Taylor of Wheeler and Taylor's "Spacetime Physics"). A set of books that combine clarity of exposition with historical notes on the development of physics. One might be put off by the fact this book is more than forty years old. Don't! This is a little gem of clarity and synthesis that stood the test of time. It actually goes to the roots of the physical principles of the oscillatory motion and does not give anything for granted. Yes, the main emphasis is on the oscillations of mechanical systems, but this is not necessarily a con. As a matter of fact, it helps the reader to develop a more intuitive view of the phenomena described while they can still be translated into other domain's by means of physical analogies. This book is a must have. One note on the publisher: be warned that the latest paperback editions by Norton look like xeroxes of the original book: the pictures with the gray background show bands and dithering as if they had been scanned at very low resolution with a cheap scanner. If you can, find a used copy of the old hardbound edition. The 'old days' quality is much much better than today's standard. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Smudged pages *by S***G on 13 March 2014* The book itself is ok, but takes time to read to gain any useful information unlike a quick textbook, it is well written however it is smudged on many pages and some of the ink has left some sentences hard to read. ## Frequently Bought Together - Vibrations and Waves (The M.I.T. 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