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A student's guide to Fourier transforms : with applications in physics and engineering / J.F. James..

By: James, J. F. (John Francis).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995Description: x, 131 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0521462983; 0521468299 .Subject(s): Fourier transformations | Mathematical physics | Engineering mathematicsDDC classification: 515.723
Contents:
Physics and Fourier transforms -- Useful properties and theorems -- Applications 1: Fraunhofer diffraction -- Applications 2: signal analysis and communication theory -- Applications 3 :spectroscopy and spectral line shapes -- Two-dimensional Fourier transforms -- Multi-dimensional Fourier transforms -- The formal complex Fourier transform -- Discrete and digital Fourier transforms.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Telecommunications, acoustics and computer science. In the final chapter, particular attention is paid to the fast Fourier transform. Throughout, discussion of these applications is reinforced by the inclusion of many worked examples. Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, this book will be invaluable to students of physics, electrical and electronic engineering and computer science.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128) and index.

Physics and Fourier transforms -- Useful properties and theorems -- Applications 1: Fraunhofer diffraction -- Applications 2: signal analysis and communication theory -- Applications 3 :spectroscopy and spectral line shapes -- Two-dimensional Fourier transforms -- Multi-dimensional Fourier transforms -- The formal complex Fourier transform -- Discrete and digital Fourier transforms.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to the first edition
  • Preface to the second edition
  • 1 Physics and Fourier transforms
  • 2 Useful properties and theorems
  • 3 Applications I: Fraunhofer diffraction
  • 4 Applications II: signal analysis and communication theory
  • 5 Applications III: spectroscopy and spectral line shapes
  • 6 Two-dimensional Fourier transforms
  • 7 Multi-dimensional Fourier transforms
  • 8 The formal complex Fourier transform
  • 9 Discrete and digital Fourier transform
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

The full title of this book accurately reflects its spirit: it is intended for students who would be impatient with the careful development of a technical mathematical subject. So there are phrases like "can for most purposes be ignored," "a tedious calculation would show," and "no engineer or physicist has yet lost sleep over this." As for calculations, James clearly enjoys doing them himself, provided they are brief, even to outline the proof of a theorem. But he deliberately ignores difficulties and questions of existence, for they are mathematical and not proper concerns for students of physical science and engineering. Given its limited scope as a book about Fourier analysis, the book is carefully done: there are very few misprints, and it has a short, annotated bibliography. The exercises at the end of the chapter on Fraunhofer diffraction seem open-ended and overly ambitious. But all in all, given its purpose, the book is reasonable, and this reviewer's copy will be sent to his college library. Upper-division undergraduate. S. Puckette; University of the South

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