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The physics of sound and music. Volume 2, Lab manual : a complete course text
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The physics of sound and music. Volume 2, Lab manual : a complete course text / Samya Bano Zain.
ISBN
9780750363501
9780750363495
9780750363488
9780750363518
Publication
Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Samya Zain is a Professor of Physics at Susquehanna University, USA, where she was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016. She has been a member of the BaBar scientific research collaboration at SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) at Stanford University, California, and the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, Geneva. Her previous books Techniques of Classical Mechanics: From Lagrangian to Newtonian Mechanics and Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics: An Introduction for Physicists and Engineers were published by IOP Publishing in 2019 and 2021, respectively.
Summary
This second volume of The Physics of Sound and Music: A complete course text is a lab manual providing a complete resource to accompany undergraduate courses on the physics of sound and music, and is supplemented by the textbook in volume one of this two-volume set. It is written in an accessible, clear and conversational style with the intent of engaging students and teaching physics without appearing overwhelming. The manual consists of practical and written activities that can be completed independently or during laboratory time (both in-person and online), and includes space for students to write their answers.
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IOP ebooks.
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Also available in print.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2024
Series
[IOP release $release]
IOP ebooks. [2024 collection]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Audience
This is a core text for one-semester, undergraduate (100-level) courses on the physics of sound or music. Volume 1 accompanies the lectures and Volume 2 accompanies the lab work. It will be particularly useful for courses aimed at non-physics majors with little experience of algebra or calculus.
Contents
part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction
1.1. Activity-to-do : review of mathematics
1.2. Scientific method
1.3. Units
1.4. A few important concepts
1.5. Review of vectors
1.6. Speed versus velocity
1.7. Graphical representation of motion
2. Sound, music and noise
2.1. What to know about sound, music or noise
3. Music, History and Culture
3.1. Activity-to-do : create a timeline of musical eras
3.2. Activity-to-do : place the musical eras on the world map
part II. Sound production. 4. Tension and deformations in a string
4.1. What to know about energy and force
4.2. Activity-to-do : conservation of energy-ball drop
4.3. Activity-to-do : deformation in collisions
4.4. Activity-to-do : collision impact
4.5. Activity-to-do : mass versus weight
4.6. Activity-to-do : tension and deformation in rubber bands
4.7. Activity-to-do : calculate tension (T) in a guitar string
5. Vibrating systems
5.1. What to know about vibrating systems
5.2. Activity-to-do : waves on a string
5.3. Activity-to-do : standing waves I
string (or spring)
5.4. Activity-to-do : standing waves II
nodes in water bottles
5.5. Activity-to-do : 'seeing' sound waves
5.6. Activity-to-do : SHM
simple pendulum. How does the period depend on the amplitude of the swing in a simple pendulum?
5.7. Activity-to-do : how does the period depend on the length of a simple pendulum
5.8. Activity-to-do : how does the period of a pendulum change with length
II
5.9. Activity-to-do : reflection I : ball and wall
5.10. Activity-to-do : reflection II : pencil and mirror
5.11. Activity-to-do : reflection III : verify the laws of reflection using lasers
5.12. Activity-to-do : reflection IV : verify the laws of reflection using pins
5.13. Activity-to-do : reflection V : reflections of sound waves
5.14. Activity-to-do : understanding interference
5.15. Activity-to-do : beats
6. Damping and resonance in musical instruments
6.1. What to know about resonance and damping
6.2. Activity-to-do : 'seeing' simple harmonic motion
mass attached to a spring
6.3. Activity-to-do : spring force
calculate the period (T)
6.4. Activity-to-do : damped simple harmonic oscillator (SHO)
6.5. Sympathetic vibration
6.6. Activity-to-do : Helmholtz resonator
6.7. Activity-to-do : singing rods
part III. Sound propagation. 7. Sound propagation
7.1. What to know about sound propagation
8. Factors impacting sound propagation
8.1. What to know about factors impacting sound propagation
8.2. Refraction
8.3. Diffraction
8.4. Activity-to-do : Doppler effect
part IV. Sound reception. 9. Sound power and sound intensity
9.1. Terms to know about sound intensity and relevant concepts
9.2. Pressure, force, energy
9.3. Stress and strain
9.4. Sound pressure level, sound power level and sound intensity level
9.5. Loudness and loudness level
10. The human factor
10.1. Terms to know about human hearing and sight and relevant concepts
10.2. Hearing and sight
10.3. Left-brained versus right-brained
10.4. Activity-to-do : critical bands
11. Psychoacoustics
11.1. Terms to know about human hearing and sight and relevant concepts
11.2. Binaural hearing
11.3. Activity-to-do : echolocation
11.4. Activity-to-do : masking
12. Acoustics of rooms
12.1. Terms to know about room acoustics
12.2. Sound propagation
12.3. Acoustics of rooms
12.4. Designing spaces
part V. Of sound and music. 13. Musical tones, pitch, timbre and vibrato
13.1. Terms to know about musical tones and pitch
13.2. Musical tones and pitch
13.3. Vibrato
13.4. Activity-to-do : just notable difference (JND) for sound
frequency JND
14. A musician's graph paper and musical scales
14.1. Terms to know about musical graph paper
part VI. Musical instruments. 15. String instruments
15.1. Terms to know about string instruments
15.2. String instruments
15.3. Activity-to-do : make your own guitar
15.4. Soundboards
15.5. Activity-to-do : singing wineglasses
16. Percussion instruments
16.1. Terms to know about percussion instruments
16.2. Activity-to-do : class activity : homemade xylophone (pipe)
16.3. Activity-to-do : class activity : bottle xylophone
16.4. Activity-to-do : class activity : make your own kazoo
17. Wind instruments
17.1. What to know about wind instruments.
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