Scientific Papers of C. V. Raman Vol. 2 : Acoustics

This volume contains 55 publications in the field of Acoustics and includes the famous landmark paper On the Mechanical Theory of Vibration of Bowed Strings--perhaps the most important contribution to the theory of violins since Helmholtz, and also the English translation of Raman's celebrated monograph, Musik instrumente und ihre Klange (Musical Instruments and Their Tones) in the Springer Encyclopaedia of Physics. The volume includes six remarkable papers on the acoustics of Indian musical instruments--the mridangam and tabla, the only percussion instruments in the world that produce harmonic vibrations, and the tanpura and veena.Raman, Chandrasekhara V. is the author of 'Scientific Papers of C. V. Raman Vol. 2 : Acoustics', published 1989 under ISBN 9788185324029 and ISBN 8185324026.