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Physics 331, Winter 2019
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Instructor: Tom Giebultowicz ("Dr. Tom")
e-mail: giebultt@science.oregonstate.edu
(please use this address only for communicating with the instructor)
Office hours: T 12:00 - 12:50 at WNGR Room 200 (or any time by appointment).
Lab TA: Dr. Tom (yes, the same person as the Course instructor). Labs meet at WNGR 200. There are three groups: 10:00, 14:00, and 16:00.

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• Click here for the Syllabus
• Click here for the schedule of classes & Labs

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Important! Formula Sheet for the Final Test

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LECTURE NOTES:

• Chapter One (lectures 1 - 7)
  
• Chapter Two.01 (general theory of sound waves -- handwritten notes);
  
• Chapter Two.02: Lecture 8-9 (on Jan. 31 & Feb. 05) topics
  
• Chapter Two.03.01: Doppler Effect (slides 7-11 -- watch in the "Slide Show" mode!).
  
• Chapter Two.03.02: Doppler Effect, formulae derivation.
  
• Chapter Two.04: Sound spectra, Fourier analysis & synthesis
  
• Chapter Two.05: Timbre, ADSR envelope.
  
• Chapter Two.06: Sound intensity, Loudness -- Decibel scale.
  
• Chapter Two.07: Sound recording -- history
  
• Chapter Two.08: Intro to digital recording.
  
• Chapter Three: Musical Scales

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LAB MANUALS:
Unit One (Tues., Jan. 15); no need to print!
Unit Two (Tues., Jan. 22); no need to print!
Lab Manual Unit 3: Standing Waves on Stretched Strings.
Lab four: standing waves in air columns.
Special lab: composers & performers list. (instructions by e-mail).

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Guidelines how to write the term paper: Please click!
Term paper examples from other courses:
Example 1: Click!; Example 2: Click!; Example 3: Click!.
Yet another example (could be a bit longer)
And yet another (it's OK to put the
figures at the end -- but with captions! Or, at least, with tags:
Fig. 1, Fig.2,.., and the captions listed on a separate page).

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