MUS170: Musical Acoustics (Fall 2014)

Reading: Please read chapter 7 from Miller's book. Problem Set: A sinusoidal plane wave at 40 Hz. has an SPL of 80 decibels.  ...

Reading:  Please read chapter 6 from Miller's book. Exercises: For these exercises, assume the speed of so...

Here are some wonderfully demonstrative animated gifs by Dan Russell, acoustics professor at Penn State: http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/d...

Due Tuesday, 11/18. Please write a description of your proposed final project. Each team will submit a single document. The target length ...

Here are some resources, both online and local, that might be helpful as you plan your projects.  There are plenty of avenues to explore her...

Someone brought this gentleman's novel musical instrument to my attention today. I thought I'd share it with you folks: http://vim...

1) A stretched violin string has 50 N tension and 1x10^(-2) kg / m linear density. What is the propagation speed of a transverse wave trave...