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| | Midterm: Thursday
Oct 20, 6-8 pm, Kemeny 201 (solutions)
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| 21 F | | Complex vibration modes of extended bodies
(eg two masses, Chladni plates)
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| 24 M | 8.5-8.7.1 | Damping and excitation of modes.
Lowest mode of an elastic string. | hitbar
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| 6 | 26 W | | HW5 due. Damping and excitation of
strings. Bowing.
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| 27 Th X-hr | - |
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| 28 F | 8.7.5 | Plucked and bowed strings. Pipe resonances.
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| 31 M | 8.7.4, 8.3.3 | More pipes,
register keys, clarinet modes, Helmholtz resonator.
| openclosed
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| 7 | Nov 2 W | 8.9 | HW6 due.
(Stretched
partials.)
Resonance.
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| 4 F | this |
Human voice: speech, formants,
vocal tract shape,
vowels, singing.
sopranos,
von Kempelen's
machine.
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| 7 M | 7.10, 7.13.2, 8.10.1, App.7 | Singing.
Architectural
acoustics: reverberation and early reflections.
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| 8 | 9 W | | HW7 due.
Derive Sabine's formula. Ray reflection, method of images.
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| 10 Th X-hr | | Quiz 2 (35 mins, bring calculators) (answers)
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| 11 F | 7.8, 7.11 |
Deadline to choose project topics.
Multiple images and lattices.
wave phenomena. | image
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| 14 M | |
Interference and diffraction of waves.
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| 9 | 16 W | | HW8 due. Human hearing: anatomy, frequency
sensitivity.
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| 18 F | | Human hearing: directional sensing, frequency masking.
| direction
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| 21 M | | electronic music recording and reproduction.
sampling | sampling
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| 24 W - 28 Su: --------- Thanksgiving recess
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| 28 M | - | Math in music composition,
(Paganini 24th Caprice theme,
Rachmaninov
Rhapsody Op.43, inversion
of melody).
| groups
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| 10 | 30 W | - | Project Presentation Mini-Conference
(in usual lecture slot)
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| Dec 1 Th X-hr | - | Finish Project Presentations. Exam
review session. practise questions.
2007 final (solutions),
2008 final (solutions).
2010 final (solutions).
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| | Final Exam:
Monday Dec 5, 8am, Kemeny 108
(solutions)
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Project write-ups due at my office, 5pm, Tues Dec 6.
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