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Subject(s)

• Music—Acoustics and physics [Browse]
• Musical instruments—Construction [Browse]

Summary note

This textbook is written for a very specific purpose and audience: It serves as a breadth requirement for a general education program at the college level for non-science majors. It is intended to satisfy a science-and-technology, quantitative-reasoning, and, optionally, a lab requirement.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Purpose and Scope of the Textbook
• 1. Waves and the Language of Physics
• 1.1 Pitch, Loudness, Timbre
• 1.2 Units, Graphs, Formulas
• 1.3 Dependencies: Qualitative and Quantitative
• 1.4 Problems
• 2. Melodic Instruments and the Origins of Music and Science
• 2.1 Neanderthal Flutes and Greek Lyres
• 2.2 Pythagorean Intervals
• 2.3 Vibrating Strings
• 2.4 Pythagorean Scales
• 2.5 Space-Time Connection
• 2.6 Air Columns and Boundary Conditions
• 2.7 Music of the Spheres and the Lessons of Pythagoras
• 2.8 New Scales and the Development of Western Harmony
• 2.9 Problems
• 3. Non-Melodic Instruments: Non-Harmonic and 2D Systems
• 3.1 Vibrating Bars and Non-linear Dependencies
• 3.2 Overtone Series, Addition of Waves, and Tone Quality
• 3.3 Dimensional Acoustic Cavities
• 3.4 Cavity Mode Diagrams
• 3.5 Spectroscopy, Modern Physics, and Music of the Spheres
• 3.6 Problems
• 4. Waves and Interference
• 4.1 General Properties of Waves
• 4.2 Constructive and Destructive Interference
• 4.3 Interference in Reflections
• 4.4 Interference Patterns
• 4.5 Interference in Time: Beats
• 4.6 Light Waves
• 4.7 Problems
• 5. Applications: Feedback and the Doppler Shift
• 5.1 Gain and Feedback
• 5.2 Applications of Feedback
• 5.3 The Doppler Effect
• 5.4 Sonic Booms and Shock Waves
• 5.5 Problems
• 6. Psychoacoustics: Consonance and Dissonance
• 6.1 Structure of the Ear and Pitch Perception
• 6.2 Critical Bandwidth and Just Noticeable Difference
• 6.3 Pure Tones, Consonance and Dissonance
• 6.4 Complex Tones, Fourier Analysis, and the Missing Fundamental
• 6.5 Difference Tones
• 6.6 Problems
• Appendix: Companion Laboratories for The Music of Physics
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-04-003655-4
• 1-04-003654-6
• 1-003-48481-6

OCLC

1439598340

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