Physics of Music

Table of Contents

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• Physics of Music
  
• Synthesis: The Scientific Method
  
• RANGE OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
  
• Mathematics: the Language of Physics
  
• The quadratic equation
  
• A Beautiful Equation
  
• An Example of Modern Art
  
• Symmetry
  
• Perfection: The Circle
  
• The Harmony of the Spheres
  
• Harmony of the Spheres
  
• Newton’s Synthesis
  
• Other Examples of Synthesis:
  
• Symmetry Revisited
  
• Symmetry of Objects
  
• Perfection: The Circle
  
• Symmetry of the Universe
  
• The Small and the Large
  
• WHAT IS A BLACK HOLE?
  
• Black Hole Geometry
  
• Properties of Black Holes:
  
• Can We Make Black Holes in the Lab?
  
• A New Synthesis
  
• The Ultimate Synthesis of the Large and Small
  
• String Theory
  
• String Theory (cont’d)
  
• The Harmony of Modern Physics

Last update: 1/6/2004