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Music: An Interdisciplinary Combination of Physics, Mathematics, and Biology Steven A. Jones This Presentation Draws From General Engineering Background One year graduate sequence in acoustics (Lecture + Lab, with thanks to Dr. Vic Anderson) Thirty years of playing guitar 20 Years of Research in Medical Ultrasound This Presentation Might Help The beginning guitarist The self-taught guitarist The formally trained guitarist Engineers who know little about music Musicians who want a new perspective My Musical History Piano Lessons (Miss Berry) Uncles (The Banana Song) Uncle Warren’s Guitar Led Zeppelin Fake Books Classical guitar (Sor) Lessons from George Petch (and a new guitar) Ron Pearl (BCGS) Alan Goldspeil Stuff I Didn’t Know When I Started Where the notes are on the guitar (vs piano). Importance of rhythm Triples 5-tuples (hippopotamus) Other African animals What is interpretation? Concept of Voices Cerebellar Function How keys work How chords work More Stuff I Didn’t Know Harmonic Analysis What tone is Rubato Dynamics Major/Minor 3rd/5th/7th (Close Encounters) Major/Minor Scales The Guitar Vibration of a String The wave equation Behavior in time is the same as behavior in space Wave Speed depends on tension (T) and string density per unit length ( ) General Solution to the Equations Initially Stationary String Boundary Conditions Not for the Squeamish Warning: Those who tend to pass out at the sight of math may want to leave the room before I present the next slide. I will let you know when it is safe to come back into the room again. Boundary Conditions Constrain Allowable Frequencies Harmonics of a String Harmonics of a String Harmonics of a String Harmonics of a String String Shapes/Vibration Modes 1st Harmonic is a Sine Wave 2nd Harmonic is 2x the frequency of the 1st Since the middle of the string doesn’t move for 2nd harmonic, can touch it there still get vibration. 3rd harmonic has two nodes (at 1/3 and 2/3rds the string length) The “ha