The book's strength lies as a sourcebook of essential formulae and thumbnail physical descriptions ... this is a book to which all committed auditory researchers should at least have access. It is a serious attempt to educate students and researchers to the idea that some areas of physiology may be better described with the help of a little, but quite approachable, mathematics.'

• Introduction; Simple vibrators; Vibrations of strings and bars; Sensory hairs and otoliths; Vibration of membranes, plates, and shells; Acoustic waves; Acoustic sources and radiation; Low-frequency network models; Low-frequency auditory models; Pipes and horns; High-frequency auditory models; The inner ear; Mechanically excited sound generators; Pneumatically excited sound generators; Signals, noise, and information; Appendices; Index.

The book's strength lies as a sourcebook of essential formulae and thumbnail physical descriptions ... this is a book to which all committed auditory researchers should at least have access. It is a serious attempt to educate students and researchers to the idea that some areas of physiology may be better described with the help of a little, but quite approachable, mathematics.'

• Introduction; Simple vibrators; Vibrations of strings and bars; Sensory hairs and otoliths; Vibration of membranes, plates, and shells; Acoustic waves; Acoustic sources and radiation; Low-frequency network models; Low-frequency auditory models; Pipes and horns; High-frequency auditory models; The inner ear; Mechanically excited sound generators; Pneumatically excited sound generators; Signals, noise, and information; Appendices; Index.

The book's strength lies as a sourcebook of essential formulae and thumbnail physical descriptions ... this is a book to which all committed auditory researchers should at least have access. It is a serious attempt to educate students and researchers to the idea that some areas of physiology may be better described with the help of a little, but quite approachable, mathematics.'

• Introduction; Simple vibrators; Vibrations of strings and bars; Sensory hairs and otoliths; Vibration of membranes, plates, and shells; Acoustic waves; Acoustic sources and radiation; Low-frequency network models; Low-frequency auditory models; Pipes and horns; High-frequency auditory models; The inner ear; Mechanically excited sound generators; Pneumatically excited sound generators; Signals, noise, and information; Appendices; Index.