PHYS 1240: Sound and Music
Summer 2019


Course Calendar

 

This schedule contains up-to-date information about material covered in lectures, corresponding chapters and sections to read in Hall's Musical Acoustics, and important due dates. This calendar will be periodically updated to include copies of the slides for each lecture (including clicker questions).

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
July 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

 

L1:
Pressure, Vibrations, Waves

(Hall 1.1, 1.3, 1.5)

L2:
Hooke's Law, Oscillations, Resonance

(Hall 1.2, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5)
Tutorial 1
(Solutions)

L3:
Doppler Effect, Interference, Beats

(Hall 1.4, 4.1-4.5)

L4:
Complex Waves: Beats, Timbre

(Hall 4.5, 6.3, 6.7)
Tutorial 2
(Solutions)

 

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

L5:
Harmonics, Decibels

(Hall 7.4, 10.1, 5.1-5.3, 5.5)

HW 1 due

L6:
Psychoacoustics: The Ear

(Hall 6.1, 6.4, 6.6)
Tutorial 3
(Solutions)

L7:
Psychoacoustics: The Brain, Auditory Illusions, Dissonance

(Hall 18.1)

L8:
Music: Pythagoras, Intervals, Scales

(Hall 7.1, 7.3, 18.2-18.4)
Tutorial 4
(Solutions)

L9:
Music: Temperaments, Non-Western Scales

(Hall 18.5)
Tutorial 5
(Solutions)

 

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

L10:
Fourier Synthesis, Sound Envelopes

(Hall 8.1, 8.2)
Tutorial 6
(Solutions)

HW 2 due

Midterm exam

(info here)

L11:
Vibrating Strings, Keyboard Instruments

(Hall 10.2-10.4, 11.1-11.3)
Student performance: classical/flamenco guitar
Homelab 2 due

L12:
Vibrating Air Columns, Organs

(Hall 12.1-12.4)
Student performance: flute

L13:
Woodwinds, Brass Instruments

(Hall 12.5, 12.6, 13.1-13.4)
Tutorial 7
(Solutions)
Student performance: alto sax

 

28 29 30 31 Aug. 1 2 3

L14:
Percussion: Vibrating Beams

(Hall 3.2, 9.1, 9.4, 9.6)
Tutorial 8
(Solutions)

HW 3 due

L15:
Percussion: Vibrating Membranes

(Hall 9.5, 9.7)

L16:
The Human Voice, Language

(Hall 14.1-14.4)

L17:
Language, Animal Sound Production

L18:
Auditorium and Room Acoustics

(Hall 15.1-15.3)

 

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

L19:
Electronic Sound: Recording

(Hall 16.1-16.5)
Tutorial 9
(Solutions)

HW 4 due

L20:
Electronic Sound: Instruments, Editing

(Hall 8.3, 8.4)
Student performance: electric guitar

L21:
Special topics

Tutorial 10
(Solutions)

Review for final
Tutorial 11
(Answer Key)

Final exam

(info here)