Bibliography
Sources and further reading.
Standard references for the physical material in Physics Foundations. Entries are listed chronologically.
- (1816). Sur la vitesse du son dans l'air et dans l'eau. Annales de chimie et de physique 3: 238–241.
Corrected Newton's isothermal assumption to adiabatic, recovering c ≈ 343 m/s in agreement with experiment. The factor γ = c_p/c_v enters acoustics from here.
#laplace-1816 - (1980). Thermal Physics (2nd ed.). W. H. Freeman.
A more elementary partner to Landau Vol 5; the equipartition theorem and kinetic-theory routes draw on this exposition.
#kittel-introduction - (1980). Statistical Physics, Part 1 (3rd ed., Course of Theoretical Physics, vol. 5). Pergamon.
The canonical treatment of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, free energy, and phase equilibria. Source for the thermodynamics and free-energy chapters of Physics Foundations.
#landau-vol5 - (1986). Theory of Elasticity (3rd ed., Course of Theoretical Physics, vol. 7). Pergamon.
Continuum mechanics of elastic solids. Source for the elasticity chapter of Physics Foundations and for plate/membrane mechanics in the Hearing book.
#landau-vol7 -
The densest and most authoritative continuum-mechanics treatment in print. Chapter VIII (§§64–81) on sound is the spine of our wave-equation chapter.
#landau-vol6 -
The definitive reference on cavitation and bubble dynamics. Source for surface tension, nucleation, polytropic gas, and Rayleigh–Plesset content.
#brennen-1995 - (2000). An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.
The classical fluid-mechanics text. Source for the fluid-mechanics, viscosity, and surface-tension chapters of Physics Foundations.
#batchelor-2000 - (2001). Mechanics of Motor Proteins and the Cytoskeleton. Sinauer.
Low-Reynolds-number biological fluid mechanics, viscoelastic response, thermal fluctuations. Useful for cochlear mechanics and Brownian-noise discussions.
#howard-2008 - (2002). Classical Mechanics (3rd ed.). Addison-Wesley.
The standard graduate-level mechanics text. Reference for Newtonian-mechanics, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian formulations in the mechanics chapter of Physics Foundations.
#goldstein-mechanics - (2004). Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena. Springer.
The standard reference on surface tension, contact angle, and capillary phenomena. Source for the surface-tension chapter of Physics Foundations.
#de-gennes-capillarity - (2016). Fluid Mechanics (6th ed.). Academic Press.
A modern, less austere companion to Batchelor; useful for dimensionless-number scaling arguments and Reynolds-number intuition.
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