What the book is about
Horace Lamb, best known for his classic Hydrodynamics, wrote this compact companion on vibration and sound. It covers vibrating strings, bars, membranes and plates, and the theory of sound waves in pipes and in open air.
Shorter and more approachable than Rayleigh, it was a standard text for students of mathematical physics for decades.
Key ideas
- Vibrating systems
- Waves in pipes
- Plane and spherical waves
- Radiation of sound