The physics of sound and music. Volume 1, Textbook : a complete course text / Samya Bano Zain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zain, Samya, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 24.

IOP ebooks. 2024 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP ebooks. [2024 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sound--Textbooks.

Sound.

Music--Acoustics and physics--Textbooks.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2024]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

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 first volume of The Physics of Sound and Music: A complete course text is a textbook providing a complete resource to accompany undergraduate courses on the physics of sound and music, and is supplemented by the lab manual in volume two of this two-volume set. This textbook is written in an accessible, clear and conversational style with the intent of engaging students and teaching physics without appearing overwhelming. The book starts with an introduction to sound and music, then discusses various aspects of sound, from how it is produced to how it propagates and how we hear it. The remainder of the book focuses on the various aspects of music, from musical tones to musical instruments, and concludes with a discussion of how sound can be recorded for replay. Problems and solutions are provided in each chapter.

Contents:

part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction

1.1. The scientific method

1.2. Units

1.3. The International System of Units (SI units)

1.4. A few important concepts

1.5. A quick review of vector and scalar quantities

1.6. Distance versus displacement

1.7. Speed versus velocity

1.8. Graphical representation of motion

2. Sound, music, and noise

2.1. What makes a sound either music or noise?

2.2. Some history of the science of sound

2.3. How does it all work?

2.4. The properties of traveling waves

2.5. What is sound?

3. Music, history, and culture

3.1. Music and life

3.2. Historic eras of music

3.3. Music and religion

3.4. Classes of musical instruments

part II. Sound production. 4. Tension and deformations in a string

4.1. Energy and force

4.2. Historic ideas about motion

4.3. Newton's laws of dynamics

4.4. Categories of forces

4.5. Mass versus weight

4.6. Tension

5. Vibrating systems

5.1. Simple harmonic motion

5.2. Standing waves

5.3. The reflection of waves

5.4. Waves in stringed instruments

5.5. Wave interaction : superposition and interference

6. Damping and resonance in musical instruments

6.1. Damping in oscillators

6.2. Resonance

6.3. Ways to drive a string at one of its resonances

6.4. Understanding resonance

6.5. Sympathetic vibrations

6.6. Resonances in musical instruments

part III. Sound propagation. 7. Sound propagation

7.1. Traveling waves

7.2. Periodic waves

7.3. The speed of sound waves

7.4. Sound absorption

8. Factors that impact sound propagation

8.1. Huygen's principle

8.2. The refraction of waves

8.3. Diffraction

8.4. The Doppler effect

part IV. Sound reception. 9. Sound power and sound intensity

9.1. Power and pressure

9.2. Sound waves

9.3. The intensity of sound waves (I)

9.4. Decibels

9.5. The speed of sound versus particle velocity

9.6. Sound power (W)

9.7. Sound pressure level (dB SPL)

9.8. Summary

9.9. The sound power level (dB SWL)

9.10. Loudness and loudness level

10. The human factor

10.1. The ranges of human hearing and sight

10.2. Speech production in humans

10.3. Auditory systems

10.4. Critical bands

10.5. Bone conduction

11. Psychoacoustics

11.1. Hearing in humans

11.2. The effect of noise on humans

11.3. Noise control

12. The acoustics of rooms

12.1. Sound propagation

12.2. The precedence effect

12.3. Room acoustics

12.4. Problems in acoustical design

12.5. The criteria for good acoustics

12.6. Designing spaces

12.7. Loudspeakers

12.8. Outdoor sound systems

part V. Of sound and music. 13. Musical tones, pitch, timbre, and vibrato

13.1. Musical tones and pitch

13.2. Pitch perception theories

13.3. Vibrato

13.4. The just-noticeable difference (JND)

13.5. Timbre or tone quality

14. A musician's graph paper and musical scales

14.1. Logarithms

14.2. The musical stave or staff

14.3. Musical scales

14.4. Musical intervals

14.5. Various terms that are important to know

part VI. Musical instruments. 15. Stringed instruments

15.1. The history of stringed instruments

15.2. The introduction of energy into a string instrument

15.3. Tuning

15.4. The guitar

15.5. The piano

15.6. Bowed stringed instruments

16. Percussion instruments

16.1. Rhythms in everyday life

16.2. Various percussion instruments

16.3. Vibrations in a bar

16.4. Vibrations in plates and membranes

16.5. Membranophones

16.6. Bells

17. Wind instruments

17.1. Wind instruments

17.2. The instruments of the woodwind family

17.3. The pipe organ

17.4. The instruments of the brass family

17.5. The bagpipe

part VII. Appendix. Appendix A. Review of mathematics

Appendix B. Unit conversions

Appendix C. Logarithms.

Notes:

"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2024).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9780750352123

9780750352116

OCLC:

1432611971

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