Course:PHYS341/2018/Calendar/Lecture01

Phys341 Lecture 01: Summary and web references

2018.01.03

Textbook: Chapter 1

Slide List

1. Physics of music
2. Course overview
3. Guests
4. Evaluation
5. Textbook
6. Hearing and Making sounds
   • Evolution of birdsong http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37618314
7. Types of environmental sounds
8. Information from the Sonic Environment
9. City Soundscapes
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape
   • http://shutoutthenoise.com/
10. Speech and music
    • Genes and speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2#Evolution
    • Early bone flute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divje_Babe_Flute
11. Music and mathematics
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Zaiyu
12. Music and mathematics
13. Music and physics
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hooke
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace
14. Acoustics in the nineteenth century
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_von_Helmholtz
15. Acoustics in the nineteenth century
    • http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Rayleigh.html
16. Musical Acoustics in the 20th century two pioneers
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleen_Hutchins
17. Scientific experiments in instrument making the nineteenth century
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxophone
    • http://www.corilon.com/shop/en/info/chanot-paris-london.html
18. Analyzing sound
    • Download spectrum analysis app http://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/spectra1.html
19. Visualizing sound
    • Visualizing sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fGNI62Cbs
20. Describing sounds