Description: Rolling ripples of water on the surface of a pond, the brilliant colors of a deep rainbow, and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony all come to us in the form of waves. While we all appreciate the beauty of these experiences in life without caring about the underlying physics, they become even more beautiful when we dive into the simple physical and mathematical description of such waves.
The first lecture will probe the salient physics behind the most accessible form of waves -- music.

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other options:


Open a streaming Web Lecture outside your web browser (for Unix users that have problems with the above link).



Open a streaming audio-only Web Lecture inside your web browser (requires the free RealPlayer plug-in). This option is for people with slow internet connections.



Download compressed Web Lecture for local playback on your computer.

1. right-click on the Download button and choose "Save Target As..."
2. save it to a directory on your computer, and make sure the filename ends with the extension .tgz
3. uncompress the .tgz file using a file compression utility
4. open the file f001.htm in your web browser (some versions of Mozilla will not display the slides correctly)

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