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Acknowledgements

This monograph is based on the experience of the authors in both government and industrial organizations. Our careers have been devoted mainly to the many needs of the United States Navy for underwater sound transducers and arrays, and we are grateful to ONR and other organizations in government and industry for support through all those years. We are also grateful to our early teachers in...