PHYS 305 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 Report
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Where you should be by now: done with weeks 1-7, be working on: schedule for week 8. Topic: timbre and sound intensities in decibels. Reading 2 hearing vs logarithms and db (readings and demos) Figure 9 pitch pipe (figures: books, software, equipment: Next: experiment 6 record/analyze sound files in raven (microphone) Home-made instruments: get plastic bottles (2 each: midterm exam. Manage your schedules: open book work the exam on your own, get exam: week 10 block on course mat page. Answer each question type into word file: requests for sound files: early is good, submit: week 10 block on course man page. 4: logarithms and decibels, overtones/delta dbs/timbre, exp. 5: dark tone/bright tone: a look forward. 4 spectra: basics: what information is provided in a waveform, spectrogram, and spectrogram slice, tour: describe what the graphs show and explain the relationships between the three graphs, show where you can find the fundamental frequencies.