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Online pdf file of The Physics of Waves --- by Howard Georgi --originally published by Prentice-Hall
As I prepared to teach the sophomore waves course at Harvard again after a break of over 10
years, I realized that I had accumulated a list of many things that I wanted to change in my
waves text. And while I was very grateful to Prentice-Hall for all the help they gave me in
turning my notes into a textbook, I felt that it was time to liberate the book from its paper
straightjacket, and try to turn it into something more continuously evolving. Thus I asked
Prentice-Hall to release the rights back to me, and they graciously agreed. My intention is to
leave the textbook up on the web for students and teachers to use as they see fit, so long as
they give me credit and do not use it for commercial purposes. I hope that readers will send
suggestions for improvements. I will not have much time to think about these and implement
them. But if I do incorporate something in the online version as the result of a suggestion, I
will acknowledge the suggestion in the list of changes below.
28-03-2015 22:49