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Joel D. Simon
jdsimon@alumni.princeton.edu
Department of Geosciences
Guyot Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Joel D. Simon is a postdoctoral
researcher in the Department of Geo- sciences, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), where he also received his PhD in geophysics in 2020. He is a member of the Standing Committee on Data for the international consortium EarthScope Oceans (see www.earthscopeoceans.org), which oversees a drifting array of 50 MERMAID floats. His research
pairs hydroacoustics with global seismology to address ques- tions concerning the structure of the Earth. He is particularly interested in signal-processing techniques useful to extract signals from noisy time series.
Sirawich Pipatprathanporn
sirawich@princeton.edu
Department of Geosciences
Guyot Hall
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA
Sirawich “Pete” Pipatprathanporn
is a PhD student in the Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) Geosciences Department. He
holds a Bachelor of Science degree in earth and environ- mental sciences and interdisciplinary physics from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). His research focuses on seismology, with a particular interest in using drifting hydrophones to detect earthquakes worldwide.
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Understanding Acoustics:
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This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on
approximation techniques rather than mathemati- cal rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments provided by many acousticians who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. A uniform methodology is pre- sented for analysis of lumped-element systems and
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