PHY207 – The Physics of Music Slides for Webinar 1, based on Week 1 and Week 2 videos.
1.2 Graphing Motion Suppose I take a ball and move it from 0cm on a ruler to 20cm, and I do that in 1 second. This is the position-time graph. Q: What is the speed? What would the graph look like if the speed were different?
Chapter 1: Simple Harmonic Motion Where on this graph is the ball moving fastest? What are the amplitude (A), period (P) and frequency (f) of this motion?
Chapter 1: Damped Harmonic Motion What’s going on in this graph?
Chapter 1: Driven Harmonic Motion What are some examples of resonance in life? What needs to happen to put a system into resonance?
Chapter 2: Waves Here is a traveling wave on a string. How is this different than an oscillation? Is this wave transverse or longitudinal?