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LECTURE 13
     goals and outline

lecture title

    Sound: Mechanical Waves in a Medium

text pages

    Ch 7, pp 84-88.

lecture goals

  • Understand interference, standing waves, and resonance.
  • Analyse musical sounds and voices.
  • Learn to interpret one simple equation relating wavespeed, frequency, and wavelength.

outline of lecture

    1. Properties of Sound

    2. Interference

    3. An Equation

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Please email any questions, comments, or suggestions to Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.

Revised September 25, 1997.


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