"Version: 20240401"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Activity-to-do : review of mathematics -- 1.2. Scientific method -- 1.3. Units -- 1.4. A few important concepts -- 1.5. Review of vectors -- 1.6. Speed versus velocity -- 1.7. Graphical representation of motion

2. Sound, music and noise -- 2.1. What to know about sound, music or noise -- 3. Music, History and Culture -- 3.1. Activity-to-do : create a timeline of musical eras -- 3.2. Activity-to-do : place the musical eras on the world map

part II. Sound production. 4. Tension and deformations in a string -- 4.1. What to know about energy and force -- 4.2. Activity-to-do : conservation of energy-ball drop -- 4.3. Activity-to-do : deformation in collisions -- 4.4. Activity-to-do : collision impact -- 4.5. Activity-to-do : mass versus weight -- 4.6. Activity-to-do : tension and deformation in rubber bands -- 4.7. Activity-to-do : calculate tension (T) in a guitar string

5. Vibrating systems -- 5.1. What to know about vibrating systems -- 5.2. Activity-to-do : waves on a string -- 5.3. Activity-to-do : standing waves I--string (or spring) -- 5.4. Activity-to-do : standing waves II--nodes in water bottles -- 5.5. Activity-to-do : 'seeing' sound waves -- 5.6. Activity-to-do : SHM--simple pendulum. How does the period depend on the amplitude of the swing in a simple pendulum? -- 5.7. Activity-to-do : how does the period depend on the length of a simple pendulum -- 5.8. Activity-to-do : how does the period of a pendulum change with length--II -- 5.9. Activity-to-do : reflection I : ball and wall -- 5.10. Activity-to-do : reflection II : pencil and mirror -- 5.11. Activity-to-do : reflection III : verify the laws of reflection using lasers -- 5.12. Activity-to-do : reflection IV : verify the laws of reflection using pins -- 5.13. Activity-to-do : reflection V : reflections of sound waves -- 5.14. Activity-to-do : understanding interference -- 5.15. Activity-to-do : beats

6. Damping and resonance in musical instruments -- 6.1. What to know about resonance and damping -- 6.2. Activity-to-do : 'seeing' simple harmonic motion--mass attached to a spring -- 6.3. Activity-to-do : spring force--calculate the period (T) -- 6.4. Activity-to-do : damped simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) -- 6.5. Sympathetic vibration -- 6.6. Activity-to-do : Helmholtz resonator -- 6.7. Activity-to-do : singing rods

part III. Sound propagation. 7. Sound propagation -- 7.1. What to know about sound propagation

8. Factors impacting sound propagation -- 8.1. What to know about factors impacting sound propagation -- 8.2. Refraction -- 8.3. Diffraction -- 8.4. Activity-to-do : Doppler effect

part IV. Sound reception. 9. Sound power and sound intensity -- 9.1. Terms to know about sound intensity and relevant concepts -- 9.2. Pressure, force, energy -- 9.3. Stress and strain -- 9.4. Sound pressure level, sound power level and sound intensity level -- 9.5. Loudness and loudness level

10. The human factor -- 10.1. Terms to know about human hearing and sight and relevant concepts -- 10.2. Hearing and sight -- 10.3. Left-brained versus right-brained -- 10.4. Activity-to-do : critical bands

11. Psychoacoustics -- 11.1. Terms to know about human hearing and sight and relevant concepts -- 11.2. Binaural hearing -- 11.3. Activity-to-do : echolocation -- 11.4. Activity-to-do : masking

12. Acoustics of rooms -- 12.1. Terms to know about room acoustics -- 12.2. Sound propagation -- 12.3. Acoustics of rooms -- 12.4. Designing spaces

part V. Of sound and music. 13. Musical tones, pitch, timbre and vibrato -- 13.1. Terms to know about musical tones and pitch -- 13.2. Musical tones and pitch -- 13.3. Vibrato -- 13.4. Activity-to-do : just notable difference (JND) for sound--frequency JND

14. A musician's graph paper and musical scales -- 14.1. Terms to know about musical graph paper

part VI. Musical instruments. 15. String instruments -- 15.1. Terms to know about string instruments -- 15.2. String instruments -- 15.3. Activity-to-do : make your own guitar -- 15.4. Soundboards -- 15.5. Activity-to-do : singing wineglasses

16. Percussion instruments -- 16.1. Terms to know about percussion instruments -- 16.2. Activity-to-do : class activity : homemade xylophone (pipe) -- 16.3. Activity-to-do : class activity : bottle xylophone -- 16.4. Activity-to-do : class activity : make your own kazoo

17. Wind instruments -- 17.1. What to know about wind instruments.

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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.

This is a core text for one-semester, undergraduate (100-level) courses on the physics of sound or music. Volume 1 accompanies the lectures and Volume 2 accompanies the lab work. It will be particularly useful for courses aimed at non-physics majors with little experience of algebra or calculus.

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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.

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