Physics of Music Physics 121

Griffioen Fall 1994

Vocabulary 2

We will have a second quiz on Wednesday 21 September. It will cover the following topics:

histogram
properties of the pendulum
	period nearly independent of amplitude
	period independent of mass
	period proportional to the square root of the length
properties of the spring
	period independent of amplitude
	period proportional to the square root of the mass
sine waves
	know how to graph sinwt for a given frequency f = w/2p.
traveling waves
reflected waves
standing waves
simple harmonic motion
linear forces
nodes 
antinodes
normal modes of a string
harmonics
fundamental
v = f l