This book grew out of a semester-long course on the principles and applications of ultrasonics for advanced undergraduate, graduate, and external students at Concordia University over the last 10 years. Some of the material has also come from a 4-hour short course, “Fundamentals of Ultrasonic Waves,” that the author has given at the annual IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium for the last 3 years for newcomers to the field. In both cases, it was the author’s experience that despite the many excellent existing books on ultrasonics, none was entirely suitable for the context of either of these two courses
