Topics for LifeQuest Class: Sound, Physics, and
Music
- Motion, Vibration, and Waves (11:00 a.m., Wed., September 19,
2007)
1.1 Describing motion
1.2 Understanding motion, force, and energy
1.3 Periodic motion: vibration and oscillation
1.4 Simple harmonic motion
1.5 What is a
wave?
- Waves and Sound Propagation (11:00 a.m., Wed., September 26,
2007)
2.1 Transverse and longitudinal
Waves
2.2 Basic phenomena and properties of
waves
2.3 Sound radiation from a baffled piston
- Harmonics & the Overtone Series (11:00 a.m., Wed., October 3,
2007)
3.1 Transverse standing
waves
3.2 Resonance and the overtone
series
3.3 Longitudinal standing
waves
3.4 Superposition of waves
- Understanding Complex Waves (11:00 a.m., Wed., October 10,
2007)
4.1 Synthesis of complex
waves
4.2 Fourier analysis and Fourier
spectra
4.3 Analysis of tone quality (including
audio MP3 files)
4.4 Resonance curves and musical
sound production
4.5 Synthesizers
- The Human Ear (11:00 a.m., Wed., October 17, 2007)
5.1 Peripheral auditory system, (Dr. Gail Weddington)
5.2 Place
theory of hearing, (Dr. Gail Weddington)
5.3 Hearing
loss, (Dr. Gail Weddington)
5.4 Cochlear implants,
(Dr. Gail Weddington)
- The Human Voice (11:00 a.m., Wed., October 24, 2007)
6.1 Energy input and the primary vibrator
6.2 The resonant vibrator: anatomy of the vocal
tract
6.3 Vocal tract
resonances
6.4 Singing "over" the
orchestra
6.5 Tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis
- Musical Scales & Pitch (11:00 a.m., Wed., October 31,
2007)
7.1 Background and historical
perspective
7.2 Equal
temperament
7.3 Common intervals found in the
equal tempered scale
- Woodwind, Brass, String, and Percussion Instruments (11:00 a.m., Wed.,
November 7, 2007)
8.1 History of woodwind
instruments
8.2 Recorders
8.3 Sound production in brass instruments
8.4 Theory of bowed instruments
8.5
Percussion instruments