Download or read book The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers the physics of waves, sound, music, and musical instruments at a level designed for high school physics. However, it is also a resource for those teaching or learning waves and sound from the middle school through college, at the mathematical or conceptual level. The material will be most useful for high school physics teachers and for high school physics students who have neither a background in waves nor in music but who desire a firm foundation in both. Most books written on the topic of musical acoustics tend to be either very theoretical or very cookbook style. The theoretical ones provide for little student interaction other than some end of the chapter questions and problems. The "cookbook" style provides instructions for building musical instruments with little or no explanation of the physics behind the construction. This curriculum attempts to not only marry the best ideas from both types of books, but to include pedagogical aids not found in other available resources."--Introduction on website.