TY - BOOK AU - Zain,Samya ED - Institute of Physics (Great Britain), TI - The physics of sound and music: a complete course text T2 - [IOP release $release] SN - 9780750352123 AV - QC225.15 .Z357 2024eb vol. 1 PY - 2024///] CY - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) PB - IOP Publishing KW - Sound KW - Textbooks KW - Music KW - Acoustics and physics KW - Wave mechanics (vibration & acoustics) KW - bicssc KW - SCIENCE / Acoustics & Sound KW - bisacsh N1 - "Version: 20240401"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 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; Full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers; This is a core text for one-semester, undergraduate (100-level) courses on the physics of sound or music. It will be particularly useful for courses aimed at non-physics majors with little experience of algebra or calculus; Also available in print N2 - 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 UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-0-7503-5212-3 ER -