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- Week 0 (27 September) - Administration, Course Overview, Physics Review
- Week 1 (2 October) - Vibrating Systems, Discrete-Time/Frequency Analysis
- Week 2 (9 October) - Wave Phenomena, Resonance
- Week 3 (16 October) - Hearing, Sound Pressure & Power, Perceptual Aspects of Hearing
- Self Study - Combination Tones, Musical Scales & Temperament
- Week 4 (23 October) - String Instruments
- Week 5 (30 October) - Brass Instruments, Midterm
- Week 6 (6 November) - Woodwind Instruments
- Week 7 (13 November) - Percussion Instruments
and Keyboard Instruments
- Week 8 (20 November) - Speech Production, Recognition and Synthesis
- Week 9 (27 November) - Singing, Auditorium Acoustics
- Week 10 (4 December) - Electronic Reinforcement of Sound, High-Fidelity Sound-Reproducing Systems
- Final (Monday 10 December 2001, 3:30-6:30 PM)
This course is about vibrating objects. An object will emit sound if it vibrates between a rate of about 20 - 20,000 cycles/second or Hertz (Hz) and there exists a means for some of those vibrations to be converted to sound pressure variations. Sound is the vibration of air or variations of the ambient air pressure at a rate within the limited range of the human auditory system.
We will study the way objects vibrate, the way those vibrations are converted to sound, the way the sounds propagate within a room, and the way our auditory system senses such sounds.