Pierce, 1999 - Google Patents
Sound waves and sine wavesPierce, 1999
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- 10257116095773257426
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- Pierce J
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- Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics’, MIT Press, Cambridge MA
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We are immersed in an ocean of air. Physical disturbances—snapping the fingers, speaking, singing, plucking a string, or blowing a horn—set up a vibration in the air around the source of sound. A sound wave travels outward from the source as a spherical wavefront. It is a …
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