Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems
Subtitle: Linear Interactions Including Wave-Energy Extraction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521782111
Subjects: Mechanical engineering; Oceanography (seas); Sound, vibration & waves (acoustics); Science/Mathematics; Dynamic Oceanography; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Earth Sciences - Oceanography; Engineering - Hydraulic; Waves & Wave Mechanics; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; Ocean wave power; Ocean waves
First sentence: In this chapter, which is a brief introduction to the theory of oscillations, a simple mechanical oscillation system is used to introduce concepts such as free and forced oscillations, state-space analysis and representation of sinusoidally varying physical quantities by their complex amplitudes.