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Chapter 11: Vibrations, Waves, and the Physics of Musical Instruments

Lecture 1: Wednesday March 26

Lecture notes: ch11-lec1.pdf

Music and Musical Instruments
Plucking a String: Simulating a Guitar

Guitar Acoustics
Plucking a String

Lecture 2: Friday March 28

Lecture notes: ch11-lec2.pdf

Violin
Trumpet
Guitar
Marimba

Lecture 3: Monday March 31

Lecture notes: ch11-lec3.pdf

UTube Demos and Discussion

Guitar
Violin
Trumpet
Drums

Lecture 4: Wednesday April 2

Lecture notes: ch11-lec4.pdf

Reed Instruments

Clarinet

Stick-Slip Motion of Bowed String

Helmholtz Motion
Stick-slip in Geophysics

Vibrations of a Membrane

Normal Modes and Eigenvalues

Generation of Sound

Richard J. Gonsalves