{"id":139,"date":"2025-02-26T20:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/wroberts\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:19:34","slug":"p1600_open","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.mtsu.edu\/wroberts\/p1600_open\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics 1600: The Physics of Music Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the Home page for&nbsp;<em>Physics 1600: The Physics of Music<\/em>&nbsp;at Middle Tennessee State University.&nbsp; The purpose of the web pages that link off this page is to provide a number of items<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>course syllabus, course requirements, and contact information for me Dr. Robertson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a summary of the material covered in the lecture (NOT a substitute for attending the lecture in person)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>some supplementary links, demonstrations, and information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>homework problems for you to test your understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course Materials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/docs\/Phys1600-F16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Syllabus<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/project.php\">Special Project requirements and ideas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/index.php\">Dr. Robertson&#8217;s Home Page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact the Instructor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"mailto:wroberts@mtsu.edu\">E-mail me a question.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lecture Materials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The syllabus gives an approximate schedule of when the following lectures will be given in class.&nbsp; As you will soon find out I may not always keep to the schedule; however, it will be pretty obvious from the class what topic we are covering.&nbsp; It needs to be emphasized that the following web pages are merely supplemental.&nbsp; I will cover the material in more detail in class.&nbsp; Furthermore, in making up the quizzes I tend to draw on subjects that crop up as questions or areas of particular emphasis in class.&nbsp; In other words do not be tempted to substitute the online documents for coming to class&#8211;it will hurt your grade, plus you will miss the myriad of cool demos that I try to mix in throughout the semester!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/measunits.php\">Measurements and Units<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/shm.php\">The Simple Harmonic Oscillator<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/waves.php\">Waves<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/ear.php\">Structure of the ear<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/log_1.php\">Loudness and Decibels<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/standingwaves.php\">Standing Waves<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/purecomp.php\">Pure and complex tones<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/ohms.php\">Ohm&#8217;s Law of Hearing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/fourier_1.php\">Time, Frequency and spectrum<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/scales.php\">Musical Intervals and Scales<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/consonance.php\">&#8220;Scientific&#8221; theory of consonance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w1.mtsu.edu\/faculty\/wroberts\/teaching\/reverb_1.php\">Room Acoustics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tools:<\/strong>&nbsp; A big component of many of the special projects involves taking a spectrum of the instrument you build.&nbsp; The link below takes you to a nice little freeware tool for the PC that lets you acquire a spectrum from a sound file recording (.wav file). 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