Bryan H. Suits (Michigan Technological University)

Physics Behind Music

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging text uses the performance, recording, and enjoyment of music to present basic principles of physics. The narrative lays out specific results from physics, as well as some of the methodology, thought processes, and 'interconnectedness' of physics concepts, results, and ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 171mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 798g
• ISBN-13: 9781108948708
• ISBN-10: 1108948707
• Artikelnr.: 66470344

Autorenporträt

Bryan H. Suits has been a professor in the Department of Physics at Michigan Technological University (MTU) since 1985. An award-winning teacher, he has taught physics courses at all levels. An accomplished amateur musician with decades of experience, the author has combined his enthusiasm for physics with that for music to find ways to improve physics literacy among nonphysicists.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Frequency and rates
3. The notes we use
4. The frequency domain and pitch
5. Harmonic oscillators and resonance
6. String theory
7. Normal modes
8. Traveling waves
9. The uncertainty principle
10. Nonlinear physics
11. Classical gases
12. The speed of sound in a gas
13. Sounds we hear
14. Sound in pipes
15. Sound in three dimensions
16. Interference, diffraction, and diffusion
17. Faraday's laws of induction
18. RC time constants
19. Physics and recording technology
20. Electronics and music
Appendices
Index.