The Physics of Sound and Music, Volume 1

A complete course text (Textbook)

Samya Bano Zain (Susquehanna University)

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Institute of Physics Publishing
18 April 2024

Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics); Acoustic & sound engineering

Series: IOP ebooks

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.

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 multimedia resources (audio and video), links to video recordings of lectures and comprehensive problems and solutions Can be supplemented by the lab manual in volume two of this two-volume set

By: Samya Bano Zain (Susquehanna University)
Imprint: Institute of Physics Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 21mm
ISBN: 9780750352109
ISBN 10: 0750352108
Series: IOP ebooks
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 18 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 that impact sound propagation Part IV Sound reception 9 Sound power and sound intensity 10 The human factor 11 Psychoacoustics 12 The 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 IV Musical instruments 15 Stringed instruments 16 Percussion instruments 17 Wind instruments Part VII Appendix Appendix A: Review of mathematics Appendix B: Unit conversions Appendix C: Logarithms

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.