Texts and Other References for the Wave Tutorial

Software:

• Java Applets (called Physlets) and Java Scripts from Wolfgang Christian and the group at Davidson College. 
• The Easy Java Simulations package created by Francisco Esquembre. 
  
• The Open Source Physics Project.

Books:

• Solitary Waves in Plasmas and in the Atmosphere, Vladimir Petviashvili and Oleg Pokhotelov, Gordon and Breach 1992
• Two and 3D solitons, a model of Jupiter’s red spot.
• Bores, Breakers, Waves & Wakes, R. A. R. Tricker, Elsevier, 1964.
• Tidal motion explained. Pictures of wakes, waves and bores.
• Electromagnetic Vibrations, Waves, and Radiation, George Bekefi and Alan H. Barrett, MIT press, 1977.
• Standard classical E&M text plus: Oscillators (including nonlinear terms), waves (including guided waves) and wave optics (theoretical).
• Wave Physics, Oscillations – Solitons – Chaos, S. Nettel, Springer 1995.
• Standard wave topics plus solitons and Chaos.
• Vibrations and waves, A. P French, W.W. Norton & Co. 1966.
• Standard wave topics plus phase diagrams, normal modes of coupled oscillators and boundary behavior of waves.
• Introduction to Wave Phenomena, Akira Hirose and Karl E. Lonngren John Wiley and Sons, 1985.
• Standard wave topics. Various waves in different media.
• Solitons G. Elenberger, Springer-Verlag 1983.
• Inverse Scattering Transformation.
• Waves, Charles A Coulson, John Wiley & Sons. 1955.
• Standard wave topics, waves on membranes.
• The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, 5^th ed. H. J. Pain, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• Very complete standard treatment of wave including nonlinear waves, 2D waves.
• Waves and Optics Simulations Antonelli, Christian, Fisher, Giles, James, Stoner, John Wiley & Sons, 1995.
• Vibration and Waves in Physics 3^rd ed. Iain G. Main, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• The Physics of Waves, Howard Georgi, Prentice Hall, 1993.
• Fundamentals of Waves and Oscillations K.U. Ingard, Cambridge University Press,1988.
• Physics of Waves W. C. Elmore, M. A. Heald, Dover Publications, 1969.
• Principles of Vibrations and Sound, T. D. Rossing, N. H. Fletcher, Springer, 1995.
  
• Simulations in Dynamics T. P. Weissert, Springer, 1997.
• Solitons: an introduction, P. G. Drazin, R. S. Johnson, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Linear and Nonlinear Waves, G. B. Whitham, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
• Waves Called Solitons, M. Remoissenet, Springer-Verlag, 1994.
• Nonlinear Science, A. Scott, Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Waves (Berkeley Physics Course) Frank S. Crawford, Jr. McGraw Hill, 1968.
  

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