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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankNEWDIRECTIONSINLINEARACOUSTICSANDVIBRATIONThe?eldofacousticsisofimmenseindustrialandscienti?cimportance.Thesubjectisbuiltonthefoundationsoflinearacoustics,whichiswidelyre-gardedassomaturethatitisfullyencapsulatedinthephysicstextsofthe1950s.Thisviewwaschangedbydeve
2、lopmentsinphysicssuchasthestudyofquantumchaos.Developmentsinphysicsthroughoutthelastfourdecades,oftenequallyapplicabletobothquantumandlinearacousticproblemsbutoverwhelminglymoreoftenexpressedinthelanguageoftheformer,haveexploredthis.Thereisasigni?cantnewamountoftheorythatcanbeusedtoaddressprob
3、lemsinlinearacousticsandvibration,butonlyasmallamountofreportedworkdoesso.Thisbookisanattempttobridgethegapbe-tweentheoreticiansandpractitioners,aswellasthegapbetweenquantumandacoustic.Tutorialchaptersprovideintroductionstoeachofthemajoraspectsofthephysicaltheoryandarewrittenusingtheappropriat
4、etermi-nologyoftheacousticalcommunity.Thebookwillactasaquick-startguidetothenewmethodswhileprovidingawide-rangingintroductiontothephys-icalconcepts.MatthewWrightisaseniorlecturerinAcousticsattheInstituteofSoundandVibrationResearch(ISVR).HisB.Eng.wasinengineeringacousticsandvibration,andhisPh.D
5、.wasinVolterraseriescharacterizationandidenti?cationofnonlinearbioacousticsystems,bothfromtheUniversityofSouthampton.Sincethenhehasworkedon?owcontrolfordragandnoisereduction,turbofaninletdesign,aeroacoustictheory,violinacoustics,andquantumchaosinacoustics,forthestudyofwhichhewasawardedanEPSRCA
6、dvancedResearchFellowship.Hiscurrentinterestsincludewindfarmnoiseandtheneuroscienceofhearing.HeisaFellowoftheInstituteofAcoustics,aFellowoftheInstituteofMathematicsandItsApplications,aSeniorMemberoftheAmericanInstituteofAeronauticsandAstronau-tics,aMemberoftheAcousticalSocietyofAmerica,andtheb
7、ookreviewseditoroftheJournalofSoundandVibration.Heteachesmusicalinstrumentacousticsandacousticaldesign.RichardWeaverreceivedanA.B.degreeinphysicsfromWashingtonUni-versityinSt.Louisin1971andaPh.D.inastrophysicsfromCornellUniversityin1977
