Overview
Represents the first comprehensive English translation of a seminal work in acoustics
Translated by a prominent acoustician, and former Gold Medal recipient of the Acoustical Society of America
In addition to the classic experiments with glass plates and violin bows, covers topics in music, architecture, and the anatomy of human and animal hearing
Appeals to a wide audience in physics, acoustics, and history of science
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Numerical Ratios of Vibrations
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Characteristic Vibrations of Sounding Bodies
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On Transmitted Vibrations, or the Propagation of Sound
Keywords
- Acoustics of Bells
- Auditory organs in animals
- Beyer Chladni Translation
- Chladni Acoustics
- Chladni Diagrams
- Chladni Traité d’Acoustique
- Chladni Treatise on Acoustics
- History of Acoustics
- History of Acoustics Chladni
- Human Hearing
- Musical Acoustics
- Musical Acoustics Strings
- Numerical Ratios of Vibrations
- Sound Propagation
- Sound Propagation Air
- Sound Propagation Liquids
- Sound Propagation Solids
- Vibration and Sound
- Vibrations of Plates
- Wind Instrument Acoustics
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Treatise on Acoustics
Book Subtitle: The First Comprehensive English Translation of E.F.F. Chladni's Traité d’Acoustique
Authors: E.F.F. Chladni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20361-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20360-7Published: 09 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35713-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20361-4Published: 29 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 227
Topics: Acoustics, Engineering Acoustics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Otorhinolaryngology, Animal Physiology