Chapter 1 2012

• 1. The FIRST DAY The PhysicsofMusic and Colorc Leon Gunther

2. Communication and ResourcesBLACKBOARDTelephone x75361Email [email protected] 3. Cemile Marsan -- Teaching [email protected] 266B 4. GRADINGQuiz50 ptsMidterm100 ptsFinal250 ptsLab150 ptsHW50 ptsTotal600 pts 5. Trailer of the film: The Mystery of Picasso 6. Vocal Folds of Leon Gunther in action 7. Shir Hanoded Issi Rozen and his trio wave of segment shown above 8. complex wavepure sine waveBuddhist Bell 9. excerpt from PASTORALE Symphony by Beethoven Click in the box and on the arrow Listen to the SOUND and see the corresponding WAVE 10. QUESTIONS DISCUSSED IN THE COURSE1. Why is the sky blue and the setting sun red?2. How does the rainbow get its colors?3. How is it that all light is a mixture of the colors of the rainbow?Is brown technically a color?4. How is it that sound can bend around corners?5. Does light bend around corners?6. What simple mathematical relationships form the bases of the musical scales of mostof the worlds cultures? Are these relationships unique?7. Are there three primary colors?8. We can perceive sounds in the brain that are not produced by sound in the air.How is this phenomenon related to the blueness of the ocean? 11. 9. What are the colors white, black, gray, and brown?10. How is the eye like a camera?11. How is it that the ear can perceive two distinct musical tones, yet the eye perceives a mixture of two colors as a single color?12. How can we get color from purely black and white images?13. How does the brain determine the direction of a source of sound?14. What is noise?15. Why does the trumpet sound different from the violin?16. What is a mirage?17. How can we estimate the speed of an propeller airplane flyingoverhead from the sound we hear? 12. 19. How does a color monitor work?20. Can a soprano really break glass?21. Why does a utist have to retune his or her ute a while after having begun playing?22. How is sound transmitted electrically?23. How does the ear provide us with a sense of pitch?24. Can a sh hear a sherman talking?25. Why do some automobiles rattle at a speed of about 55 mph?27. How can we hear sounds which are not in the air? 13. Sound that produces Music is a wave phenomenonLight that produces a sense of color is also a wave phenomenonOther examples:vibrating stringwater wavestuning fork