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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.
Key Features
- Provides a complete resource to accompany one semester undergraduate courses on the physics of sound and music
- Introduces sound and music, sound production, sound propagation, sound reception, the physics of musical instruments, and sound recording
- Written in an accessible, clear and conversational style with the intent of engaging students without appearing overwhelming
- Includes activities to supplement classwork (both in-person and online)
- Can be supplemented by the textbook in volume one of this two-volume set
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.
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction
2 Sound, music and noise
3 Music, History and Culture
Part II Sound production
4 Tension and deformations in a string
5 Vibrating systems
6 Damping and resonance in musical instruments
Part III Sound propagation
7 Sound propagation
8 Factors impacting sound propagation
Part IV Sound reception
9 Sound power and sound intensity
10 The human factor
11 Psychoacoustics
12 Acoustics of rooms
Part V Of sound and music
13 Musical tones, pitch, timbre and vibrato
14 A musician’s graph paper and musical scales
Part VI Musical instruments
15 String instruments
16 Percussion instruments
17 Wind instruments