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The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments
covers the physics of waves, sound, music, and musical instruments
at a level designed for high school physics. However, it is also
a resource for those teaching or learning waves and sound from the
middle school through college, at the mathematical or conceptual
level. The material will be most useful for high school physics
teachers and for high school physics students who have neither a
background in waves nor in music but who desire a firm foundation
in both. Most books written on the topic of musical acoustics tend
to be either very theoretical or very cookbook style. The theoretical
ones provide for little student interaction other than some end
of the chapter questions and problems. The "cookbook"
style provides instructions for building musical instruments with
little or no explanation of the physics behind the construction.
This curriculum attempts to not only marry the best ideas from both
types of books, but to include pedagogical aids not found in other
available resources.
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