PHYS 1406 - Physics of Sound and Music

Basic information

• syllabus
• course calendar
• lecture notes
• slides: slides1, slides2, slides3

Lab information

• instructions for labs
• lab 1
• lab 2
• lab 3
• lab 4
• lab 5
• lab 6
• lab 10
• lab 7
• lab 8
• lab 9

Extra resources

• waves - by David Griffiths
• labs from previous semesters

Useful links

• Online Tone Generator - generate pure tones of any frequency
• Fourier Series Applet
• Fourier: Making Waves
• Masses and Springs: Basics
• Waves Intro
• Wave on a String 1.1.24
• Wave Interference
• Bending Light 1.1.22
• Motion of Plucked String - YouTube
• The bowed string
• Bowed violin string in slow motion - YouTube
• Guitar Oscillations Captured with iPhone 4 - YouTube
• MRI - Sehnsucht nach dem Fruhlinge (Mozart) - Anna-Maria Hefele
• The Phenomenon of the Missing Fundamental
• Shepard’s Tone Phenomenon on Vimeo
• Shepard/Penrose Mix-1 - YouTube
• Vladimir Horowitz - Chopin - Etude Op.10 No.5 (Black Key) - YouTube
• J.S. Bach - Prelude in C Major - YouTube
• Johann Sebastian Bach: “Little” Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 - YouTube
• Well-Tempered Clavier (J.S. Bach), Book 1, Kimiko Ishizaka, piano - YouTube
• Generator + Radiator + Resonator (the 3 basic parts of a musical instrument) - YouTube
• Category:Drum vibration animations - Wikimedia Commons
• Chladni patterns
• The Anechoic Chamber at BRE - quietest place in the UK? - YouTube
• One Man’s Quest To Find The ‘Sonic Wonders Of The World’ : NPR
• GRAND PIANO ACTION MODEL - YouTube