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In this chapter we discuss the dispersion characteristics of waves in various real media. We shall restrict ourselves to media in which physical phenomena permit a hydrodynamic description. This clearly includes fluids and gases, but it also includes plasmas and plasma-like media (such as charged particle beams), during the analysis of which kinetic effects can either be ignored or allowed for phenomenologically. We shall examine waves known from general physics courses, such as sound waves, and more specific ones, such as waves in the atmosphere and the oceans associated with the rotation of the Earth, internal waves in a stratified ocean, and ion-sound waves in anisothermal plasmas.
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Rabinovich, M.I., Trubetskov, D.I. (1989). Properties of Waves with Small Amplitudes in Continuous Media. In: Oscillations and Waves. Mathematics and Its Applications (Soviet Series), vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1033-1_5
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