The Physics of Music and Color Sound and Light /

• Main Author: Gunther, Leon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Acoustics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Acoustical engineering.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Engineering Acoustics.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.

This undergraduate textbook aids readers in studying music and color, which involve nearly the entire gamut of the fundamental laws of classical as well as atomic physics. The objective bases for these two subjects are, respectively, sound and light. Their corresponding underlying physical principle...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1: Introductory Remarks
• Chapter2: The Vibrating String
• Chapter3: The Nature of Sound; The Vibrating Air Column
• Chapter4: Energy
• Chapter5: Electricity & Magnetism
• Chapter6: The Atom as a Source of Light
• Chapter7: The Principle of Superposition
• Chapter 8: Complex Waves
• Chapter9: Propagation Phenomena
• Chapter10: The Ear
• Chapter11: Psychoacoustics
• Chapter12: Tuning, Intonation, and Temperament - Choosing Frequencies for Musical Notes
• Chapter13: The Eye
• Chapter14: Characterizing Light Sources, Color Filters, and Pigments.-Chapter15: Theory of Color Vision
• Appendices.