This book gives an up to date survey of acoustic effects in the Solid State.
After a review of the different experimental techniques and an introduction
to the theory of elasticity, emphasizing the symmetry aspects, applications
are given for the different fields of condensed matter physics. These applications
include metals and semiconductors, superconductivity, unstable magnetic
moments including heavy fermion physics, magnetism, structural and
magnetic phase transitions, low dimensional systems, amorphous systems and
symmetry related experiments. The main emphasis is on more recent developments
not covered in books written 30 years ago. Actually, acoustic experiments
have been performed in all modern fields of solid state physics.