ISP 215: THE SCIENCE OF SOUND -- Fall Semester 2001

Class: Tuesday and Thursday 10:20-11:40 pm in room 120 PA

Instructor: Prof. J. Pumplin, 127 PA (ph. 355-9275, e-mail pumplin@pa.msu.edu)

Office hours: 10:00-11:00 and 2:00-3:00 Wednesday, or by appointment

Course Pack at Ned's Bookstore: Principles of Musical Acoustics by W.M. Hartmann

Topics and assignments
   Ch = Chapters of the course pack to read
   Ex = Recommended exercises

 1 Tu 8/28: Science and acoustics, Ch.1; Simple harmonic motion, frequency, 
	    period, amplitude, sine function, Ch.2; Ex. 2.1, 2.2
 2 Th 8/30: Natural modes of vibration, multimode systems, spectrum, 
            Ch.2 and Ch.3; Ex. 2.3-6, 3.1-3

 3 Tu 9/4: Resonance, linear systems, adding waves, Ch.3; Ex. 3.4-7
 4 Th 9/6: Transducers, electronic instrumentation, Ch.4; Ex. 4.1-5
		[Quiz 1, Chapters 1, 2, 3]

 5 Tu 9/11: Waves, polarization, speed of sound, Ch.5; Ex. 5.1, 5.4, 5.5
 6 Th 9/13: Waves in space and time, wavelength, Ch.5; Ex. 5.2, 5.3 
		[Quiz 2, Chapters 2, 3, 4]

 7 Tu 9/18: Interference, beats, reflection, Ch.6; Ex. 6.1-4
 8 Th 9/20: Standing waves on strings, Ch.7; Ex.7.1-8 
                [Quiz 3, Chapters 5, 6]

 9 Tu 9/25: Standing waves in pipes Ch. 8; Ex. 8.1-5
10 Th 9/27: Fourier analysis and synthesis, Ch.9; Ex. 9.1-3 
		[Quiz 4, Chapters 7, 8]

11 Tu 10/2: Sound radiation, intensity, decibels, Ch.10; Ex. 10.1-6
12 Th 10/4: dB drill, Auditory anatomy and tuning, Ch. 10, 11
		[Quiz 5, Chapter 9]

13 Tu 10/9: Auditory physiology, loudness, Ch. 11, 12 ; Ex. 11.1-7
14 Th 10/11: Loudness and pitch, Ch.12, 13; Ex. 12.1-9; Ex. 13.2-4
		[Quiz 6, Chapters 10, 11]

15 Tu 10/16: Pitch and auditory organization Ex. 13.1-4
16 Th 10/18: Localization of sound, Ch.14; Ex. 14.1-5 
		[Quiz 7, Chapters 12, 13]

17 Tu 10/23: Walls - reflection, transmission, absorption, Ch.15; Ex. 15.5
18 Th 10/25: Room acoustics, reverberation Ch. 15; Ex. 15.1-4
		[Quiz 8, Chapters 14, 15]

19 Tu 10/30: Audio and electroacoustic transducers, Ch.16, Ex. 16.1-7.
20 Th 11/1 : Nonlinearity and distortion, Ch. 17; Ex. 17.1-6
		[Quiz 9, Chapters 15, 16]

21 Tu 11/6: Loudspeakers, Ch.18; Ex. 18.1-5 
22 Th 11/8: Audio systems, Ch. 19; Ex. 19.1-4 
                [Quiz 10, Chapters 17, 18]

23 Tu 11/13: Digital audio, Ch. 20; Ex. 20.1-4 
24 Th 11/15: Vocal anatomy, phonemes and formants, Ch. 22; Ex. 22.1-6 
		[Quiz 11, Chapters 19, 20]

25 Tu 11/20: Spectrograms, speech and singing, Ch. 22; Ex. 22.7
26 Th 11/22: Thanksgiving holiday

27 Tu 11/27: Brass and woodwind instruments, Ch. 23, 24
28 Th 11/29: String instruments, Ch. 25
		[Quiz 12, Chapters 22, 23]

29 Tu 12/4: Percussion instruments, Ch. 26
30 Th 12/6: Electronic instruments, Ch. 27
		[Quiz 13, Chapters 24 and 25]

Grading: 13 Quizzes - every Thursday beginning 9/6. 
Science is quantitative: BRING A CALCULATOR FOR THE QUIZZES!

Final Exam: Friday Dec 14 10:00-12:00.  Location to be announced,

Each quiz counts 20 points; drop the lowest score ==> 12 times 20 = 240 points.
Comprehensive Final counts 100 points.