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Key Features


Offers an alternative route to science literacy for those interested in the arts, music and photography

Popular science book with wide readership beyond the classroom at an accessible level

Material covered at a level appropriate for self-study or as a complementary textbook

For teaching purposes, all figures in the book as well as hints on how to build labs are provided at http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123918789.


Readership
Non-science students in courses related to the study of physics with light and sound.

Quotes
´...the work of a pair of great physicists and top teachers...clear and imaginative. I cannot remember an occasion where a student complained about this text.´
--Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin, Madison

´I found the book very-well written...the book is also very popular with students. It covers the material at a depth appropriate for non-science students who are interested in the subject...it will be a very useful addition to the textbook literature for liberal arts colleges.´
-- Baha Balantekin, Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Light
1: Light and Light Waves
2: Reflection and Refraction
3: Lenses
4: The Eye
5: Photography
6: Color and Color Vision
7: Additive Color Mixing
8: Subtractive Color Mixing
9: Color Generating Mechanisms
Sound
10: Periodic Oscillations
11: Simple Harmonic Motion
12: Damped Oscillations and Resonance
13: Adding Sound Sources: Beats and Harmony
14: Waves
15: Sound Perception
16: The Ear
17: Vibration of Strings
18: Pipes
19: Fourier Analysis
20: Musical Scales
21: Musical Instruments
Solutions to Problems