Abstract
G B Whitham Chichester: J Wiley 1974 pp xvi + 636 price £12.15 Professor Whitham's book can be highly recommended as a comprehensive account of the mathematics of wave motion written with great knowledge and enthusiasm. It grew out of a course given to postgraduate mathematicians and physicists and contains material that one would expect in such a text; a discussion of characteristics and the formation of shocks; application to water waves and gas dynamics; group velocity, dispersion and wave patterns; the classical nonlinear results.
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Nonlinear systemPhysicsGeologyAcousticsQuantum mechanics
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- 1975
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- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 498-498
- Citations
- 7063
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K. J. Whiteman
(1975).
Linear and Nonlinear Waves.
Physics Bulletin
, 26
(11)
, 498-498.
https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9112/26/11/028
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- DOI
- 10.1088/0031-9112/26/11/028