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Zusatztext "This book is highly instructive for people with an interest in the wave aspects of sound! for anyone interested in how musical instruments fundamentally work and why they sound how they sound! and for those interested in the human perception of sound. It is richly illustrated in full color! printed on high-quality paper and at an excellent standard of bookmaking. It deserves a clear recommendation for a wide readership." ---Manuel Vogel! Contemporary Physics Informationen zum Autor Eric J. Heller Klappentext "Rich in explanations and do-it-yourself activities, and assuming only a high school background, this is the best text I know on how sound actually works. But what makes this book truly a treasure is the degree to which it is so fully informed by Heller's particular scientific genius: he shows by example after example how to think through complex and nonlinear systems to capture their essential features, leading to deep, novel, and practically applicable insights." --David Politzer, Nobel Laureate in Physics "This delightful book is written for a wide-ranging audience with diverse interests and musical/acoustical backgrounds. With detailed and physically intuitive discussions, interesting historical information, richly illustrated figures, exemplary sound files, and interactive computer animations (via whyyouhearwhatyouhear.com), this textbook covers an abundance of acoustical physics topics associated with the generation of sound, sound propagation, music, musical instruments, human perception of sound, room acoustics, and much more." --Steven Errede, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Covering a massive amount of material, this sweeping book contains sophisticated concepts and an immense amount of information, and includes topics left out in other books on the same subject. Singular and unique, it has no worthy competitors." --William Bickel, University of Arizona "This book--with its accessibility and breadth of scholarship--is an impressive work that I would recommend highly. This is a fantastic addition to the subject." --Paulo Bedaque, University of Maryland Zusammenfassung Focuses on the physics of sound for the nonspecialist to empower readers with a hands-on, ears-open approach that includes production, analysis, and perception of sound. This book helps you discover how musical instruments really work, how pitch is perceived, and how sound can be amplified with no external power source....
