Physics 115 - Physics Of Music
Spring
2026
01
4.00
Benjamin Brau
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
81802
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 126
bbrau@physics.umass.edu
Production and perception of musical sound. Waves; the physical basis of pitch, timbre, resonance, dissonance, and musical scales. Sound production in musical instruments and auditorium acoustics. Elementary algebra and powers of ten notation used. (Gen.Ed. PS)