Electric, Optic and Acoustic Interactions in Dielectrics by Nelson, Donald Frederick

John Wiley & Sons Inc. Hardcover. 0471051993 1979 John Wiley and Sons (New York), 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches tall red cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, gilt lettering to spine, xiv, 539 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Prior owner name and date to top margin of blank front free-endpaper. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a moderately rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Due to the weight of the book, additional postage will be required for standard international orders. ~SP46~ [3.0P] Treats a broad segment of the macroscopic physics of dielectrics by a first principles, unified, deductive method. Beginning from a discrete particle point of view, the author constructs a continuum Lagrangian of a dialectric crystal of arbitrary symmetry, structural complexity, and nonlinearity in interaction with the elctromagnetic field. All long wavelength modes of motion of the crystal, both optic and acoustic modes, are accounted for. Once the Lagrangian has been constructed, the remainder of the book is deductively obtained from it. . Very Good. First Edition.