ISP 215: THE SCIENCE OF SOUND - Fall Semester 2009 Web page: http://www.pa.msu.edu/~pumplin/isp215Fall2009/ Class: Tuesday & Thursday 12:40-2:00pm in room 1415 BPS Professor: J. Pumplin (phone (517) 884-5563, e-mail pumplin@msu.edu) Office hours: Rm 3240 BPS 2:00-4:00pm Wednesday, or by appt. Course Pack: available at Student Bookstore (Grand River) Clicker: i-clicker (required) Topics and assignments Ch = Chapters of the course pack to read Ex = Recommended exercises. 1 Th 9/3 Science and acoustics (Ch.1); Simple harmonic motion, frequency, period, amplitude, sine function (Ch.2); Ex. 2.1, 2.2 [Quiz 0: practice quiz/survey] 2 Tu 9/8 Natural modes of vibration, multimode systems, spectrum (Ch.2 and Ch.3); Ex. 2.3, 3.1-3.3 3 Th 9/10 Resonance, linear systems, adding waves (Ch.3); Ex. 3.4-7 [Quiz 1: mainly on Chapters 1, 2] 4 Tu 9/15 Transducers, electronic tools (Ch.4) 5 Th 9/17 Sound waves, polarization, speed of sound (Ch.5); Ex. 5.1,5.4,5.5 [Quiz 2: mainly on Chapters 2, 3, 4] 6 Tu 9/22 Waves in space and time, wavelength (Ch.5); Ex. 5.2, 5.3 7 Th 9/24 Interference, beats, reflection, refraction, diffraction (Ch.6); Ex. 6.1-6.4 [Quiz 3: mainly on Chapters 3, 4, 5] 8 Tu 9/29 Standing waves on strings (Ch.7); Ex. 7.1-7.5 9 Th 10/1 Standing waves in pipes (Ch. 8); Ex. 8.1-8.3 [Quiz 4: mainly on Chapters 5, 6, 7] 10 Tu 10/6 Fourier analysis and synthesis, periodicity (Ch.9); Ex. 9.1-3 11 Th 10/8 Sound radiation, intensity, decibels (Ch.10); Ex. 10.1-10.6 [Quiz 5: mainly on Chapter 7, 8, 9] 12 Tu 10/13 dB drill, Auditory anatomy and tuning (Ch. 10, 11) 13 Th 10/15 Auditory physiology, loudness (Ch. 11, 12); Ex. 11.1-11.7 [Quiz 6: mainly on Chapters 9, 10, 11] 14 Tu 10/20 Loudness and pitch (Ch. 12, 13); Ex. 13.2-13.4 15 Th 10/22 Localization of sound (Ch.14); Ex. 14.1-14.5 [Quiz 7: mainly on Chapters 11, 12, 13] 16 Tu 10/27 Walls; reflection, transmission, absorption (Ch.15); Ex. 15.5 17 Th 10/29 Room acoustics, reverberation (Ch. 15); Ex. 15.1-15.4 [Quiz 8: mainly on Chapters 12, 13, 14] 18 Tu 11/3 The Rooms Experience: meet at ROOM 18 COMMUNICATION ARTS 19 Th 11/5 Audio and electroacoustic transducers (Ch.16); Ex. 16.1-16.7 [Quiz 9: mainly on Chapters 13, 14, 15] 20 Tu 11/10 Nonlinearity and distortion (Ch. 17); Ex. 17.1-17.6 21 Th 11/12 Audio systems (Ch. 18); Ex. 18.1-18.4 [Quiz 10: mainly on Chapters 15, 16, 17] 22 Tu 11/17 Loudspeakers (Ch. 19); Ex. 19.1-19.5 23 Th 11/19 Digital audio (Ch. 20); Ex. 20.1-20.4 [Quiz 11: mainly on Chapters 17, 18, 19] 24 Tu 11/24 Vocal anatomy, singing, phonemes and formants (Ch. 22); Ex. 22.1-22.6 Th 11/26 Thanksgiving Holiday 25 Tu 12/1 Spectrograms, Brass instruments (Ch. 23); Ex. 23.1, 23.3 26 Th 12/3 Woodwind instruments (Ch. 24); Ex. 24.2, 24.3, 24.5 [Quiz 12: mainly on Chapters 20, 22, 23] 27 Tu 12/8 String instruments (Ch. 25); Ex. 25.2, 25.4, 25.5 28 Th 12/10 Percussion instruments (Ch. 26); Ex. 26.1, 26.2, 26.5 Course review, evaluation FINAL EXAM: Tuesday Dec 15 12:45-2:45pm in our normal classroom. Quizzes: every Thursday beginning Sept 10. Quizzes will cover the chapters listed, previous material, and material discussed in class. BRING A CALCULATOR FOR QUIZZES AND FINAL! Grading: Each quiz counts 20 points. Lowest quiz score will be dropped ==> 11 x 20 = 220 points. Comprehensive final exam counts 100 points. An optional project or paper (due Dec 10) may be submitted for up to an additional 10 points. Clicker points: additional points up to a maximum of 20 will be awarded based on your i-clicker average. (Clicker points count 2 for correct answer, 1 for incorrect answer -- averaged for each class period.)