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The Physics of Sound, 3rd Edition 3rd Edition
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For courses in Physics of Sound/Music.
Using a hands-on and experimental approach, this book incorporates developments in digital audio technology―including consumer products―into a firm foundation of the physics of sound. Selected topics are interesting to a broad audience, with many applications of sound and waves beyond strictly musical applications. No background in physics, mathematics, or music is required.
- ISBN-100131457896
- ISBN-13978-0131457898
- Edition3rd
- PublisherPearson
- Publication dateAugust 17, 2004
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 1 x 9.1 inches
- Print length398 pages
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Professor Richard E. Berg received his B.S. degree in music from Manchester College (Indiana), with emphasis on piano and clarinet, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Michigan State University. After completing his Ph.D. thesis in the area of cyclotron design, be began work on the construction of the cyclotron at the University of Maryland. This work included design and construction of the external beam transport system, design of solid state radiation detectors, and support for research in nuclear physics using the cyclotron. In 1972 he became the director of the University of Maryland Physics Lecture-Demonstration Facility, which has since developed one of the largest and most diverse collections of physics demonstrations in the world. He has initiated courses in Physics of Music laboratory, and an honors course, Nuclear Physics and Society, involving applications of nuclear physics and radiation to contemporary society. Professor Berg has sung and played renaissance wind instruments with University of Maryland Collegium Musicum for over 20 years. He has also played harpsichord and recorder in a smaller group known as the Go for Baroque Ensemble. Professor Berg has been active in physics outreach programs, annually presenting a series of public demonstration programs called Physics is Phun, which has been attended by more than 100,000 people since 1982. Over his career he has presented more than 500 traveling demonstration programs to area school groups and more than 300 smaller programs at the University of Maryland for visiting groups. In the photograph Professor Berg is shown demonstrating the twelve-harmonic variable frequency digital Fourier synthesizer designed and constructed at the University of Maryland.
David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations, Inc., and Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Maryland. Dr. Stork is an accomplished orchestral and chamber timpanist/percussionist, has performed in major concert halls throughout the United States, and performed on more than a dozen compact disks, including four world premier recordings. His principal research interests are in pattern classification, machine learning, and novel uses of the internet. He is an award-winning teacher (Ralph D. Myers Teaching Award, University of Maryland) and publishes and lectures widely on his research and scholarly topics as diverse as Renaissance painting and the relation of science fiction to science fact. His other books include Pattern Classification (2nd ed., Wiley 2000, W R. Duda and P Hart), Speechreading by Humans and Machines (Springer, 1996, W M. Hennecke), Seeing the Light (Whey, 1986, W D. Falk and D. Brill), and HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality (MIT 1997), the latter serving as the source for his PBS television documentary "2001: HAL's Legacy." Dr. Stork sits on the editorial boards of four international journals and is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), OSA (Optical Society of America), INNS (International Neural Network Society), and the Sigma XI Honorary Research Society.
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- Publisher : Pearson; 3rd edition (August 17, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 398 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0131457896
- ISBN-13 : 978-0131457898
- Item Weight : 1.7 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 1 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,219,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dr. David G. Stork is Distinguished Research Scientist and Research Director at Rambus Labs and has held faculty appointments in eight disciplines and programs: Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Neuroscience, Psychology and Art and Art History variously at Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Clark U., Boston U. and Stanford U. He holds at least 40 US patents and has published nearly 200 technical works including five books and three proceedings volumes. He graduated in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Maryland, College Park, and studied art history at Wellesley College. He is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and SPIE. He was co-creator of the PBS television documentary, "2001: HAL's Legacy," comparing the computer science visions in the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" with actual developments in computer science, all in the namesake year. He's lectured at universities, conferences and museums on computer image analysis of art. He is also an accomplished orchestral musician and is heard on several professional compact disks.
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Ever wondered how fast sound travel? What about how various sound frequencies react to each other,and in rooms? What exactly is sound? All these questions and more,are answered here. Physics of sound even gives you basic formulas that allow you to manipulate sound in the real world.
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The book tries to introduce MANY topics in a manner that is somewhat accessible to nonphysics people.
The questions at the end of each section are ordered from easiest to most difficult.
Chapter summaries are provided.
Logical structuring of later chapters (musical instruments)
Negatives:
Authors sometimes "give up" on topics or mention them only as an aside.
Chapters rarely provide mathematics needed to answer chapter exercises.
"Big picture" is often lost in order to focus on minute details.
Some music theory knowledge is required
The book has moments of "bad writing"; that is, ambiguity in terms of paragraph structure (English stuff)
Poor applications/ has trouble connecting to a musician's experiences
I think this book would benefit from two additions:
1) Appendix A (Intro. to Music Theory) should be given its own chapter at the beginning of the book. I had trouble digesting overtones at first.
2) Perhaps a mathematics-heavy chapter at the beginning of the book.
Now, I could handle the math, music theory, etc. fairly well; however, as a book geared towards people with limited knowledge of mathematics, I still suggest that this book is only "okay."
If I were a music major, I would find myself lost in the finer details by the end of this book. I would perhaps desire a stronger foundation of the PHYSICS of sound.
But if you can get past all of those things and actually stomach the reading, you will find that it is a very informative book and the author is clearly very knowledgeable on the subject matter. But that's IF you can commit to reading it, which Ive found that a lot of students in my class are having a hard time doing!
But my biggest complaint by far are the questions/problems at the end of each chapter that my professor assigns for homework!! These are some of the worst, unnecessarily tricky, poorly worded questions I have ever seen. Its like the author wrote them as if he was speaking to experts in the field who would be able to think about Physics and sound in such a detailed manner. Hardly ever any straight forward answers to be found in the chapters leading to hours of very frustrating homework.
We met the author in my Physics of Music class at UMD and needless to say, most of the students were LESS than enthused to see this guy after putting up with his book!