Physics & Astronomy

• NEW! Four new chapters on computer music introduce students to exciting modern trends in the creation of sound.

• NEW! A new section in every chapter, "Experiments for Home, Laboratory and Classroom Demonstrations," includes a wealth of rewarding and informative experiments to help students understand core concepts through practical experience and real-world examples.

• NEW! Over 400 new review questions have been added.

• REVISED! The Electroacoustics section (originally titled The Electrical Production of Sound) has been revised to include recent developments in the field.

• REVISED! Every chapter has been thoroughly revised to clarify tricky concepts and refine explanations.

• The book equips students with the fundamental physics early on in the book, allowing them to explore a wide range of topics in later chapters.

UPDATED! I. VIBRATIONS, WAVES, AND SOUNDS.

II. PERCEPTION AND MEASUREMENT OF SOUND.

III. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

IV. THE HUMAN VOICE.

REVISED! V. ELECTROACOUSTICS.

REVISED! VI. ROOM ACOUSTICS.

NEW! VII. ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC.

REVISED! VIII. ENVIRONMENTAL SOUND.

Physics of Sound/Music  (Physics & Astronomy)

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  Science of Sound, The, 2/E
  Rossing
  ©1990 | Addison-Wesley | Paper; 686 pp | Available on Demand   What's this?
  ISBN-10: 0201157276 | ISBN-13: 9780201157277
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  The Science of Sound is a lavishly illustrated, authoritative text that comprehensively covers the science of sound. Students of acoustics, speech and learning and physics will appreciate this text. Emphasis is placed on understanding the phenomena of sound, and a wide variety of topics are discussed. Physics fundamentals are presented early to allow for a branching out of topics later in the course.

Thomas D. Rossing completed his B.A. at Luther College in 1950, his M.S. and Ph.D. at Iowa State University in 1954. His dissertation was in the field of molecular physics. After graduating, he went into industrial research, and from there, he went to teaching. Currently, he is a professor at Northern Illinois University.

Professor Rossing has published more than 200 papers and ten books. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has held about a dozen research positions other than at his home institution—in national laboratories, in research universities, and in several other countries. The Acoustical Society of America awarded him the Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics.

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