Explain the physics of the generation of sound for a musical instrument of your choice.?
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for a guitar it is pretty simple: When you pluck the string its vibrations cause small pressure waves in the air which are passed along like a ocean wave until they hit our eardrum. The pitch of the note is controlled by the tautness and length of the string.
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Note that it also depends on frequency.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness
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there is a lot of research on sound/acoustics here is a good source of information http://www.livesoundint.com/
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Imagine the stretching of the surface of the drum as the stretching of a spring. use hooke's law to do calculation. u will need to know about the strength of material and etc. very very very complicated
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Can sound energy be converted into electrical energy?\nCertain kinds of microphones convert sound into energy, but at very \nlow efficiency, since again it is the signal that interests us, not\nthe energy. Other kinds of microphones, which modulate a current and\ndo not produce energy, work just as well for this purpose.\nI have not heard of any system developed to convert sound into elec-\ntrical energy efficiently and I do not think it is worthwhile to de-\nvelop one, since the amounts of energy available in the form of sound\nare rather small, even if it appears very loud to your ears (see\nbelow).\n\n>  ii)if yes....how?\nBy moving an electric conductor (e.g. a wire) through a magnetic\nfield, some of the kinetic energy is converted to electricity and a\nvoltage is induced in the conductor. Some kinds of microphones use\nthis effect by having a wire coil excited by sound (waves of moving\nair particles) in the field of a build-in magnet. The resulting\nvoltages are very small and need to be amplified to be usable.\n\n> bi)how to store the converted electrical energy?\nIt is not worthwhile to store such tiny amounts of energy. Normally\none is only interested in storing the information contained in the\nsignal (e.g. voice recording), but that costs a lot more energy than\nthe captured sound originally had.\nIf you are 20m from the 40kW-speakers of a heavy metal concert, you\neasily become deaf. Yet if you have a 1m x 1m device that converts\nall incoming sound energy at 100% efficiency, you would get 10W of\nelectrical power - a tenth of what an ordinary light bulb needs.\nMicrophones have less than 1% efficiency and are much smaller ...\n\n>  ii)in a chip ?\nChips are not a medium of choice to store energy. See above.\n\n> 3)Is their anything that is very /extremely sensitive to sound?\nMicrophones, human (and other) ears.\n\nPlease let me know if you need further clarifications.
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I'm not quite sure, but I think it has to do with replicating sound waves.  It will create reverbrations, or echoes, if you will, on a recording system.  That will simulate the effect of having the state of the art equipment in recording studios.\n\nI got this from the site posted below.\nAcoustic Mirror™\nTake sound processing to a new level with the Acoustic Mirror™. Don't settle for the unnatural effects of artificial reverb units when you add reverberation to your sound files. With Acoustic Mirror you'll add the acoustical coloration of real environments and sound-altering devices to your recordings.\nAcoustic Mirror is the ideal software solution for audio recording studios, mixing and mastering engineers, motion picture and television producers, game developers, and multimedia content creators. You'll expand your creative potential with Acoustic Mirror's extensive library of impulse responses. We collected these extremely high-quality acoustic signatures by measuring many diverse environments over hundreds of hours. Apply our responses to your recordings, or create your own. The result is professional stereo imaging and realism that is uncanny.
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Check out this page:\nhttp://www.americanpiezo.com/piezo_theory/index.html
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Wave length and frequency are inversions.\n\nThe average speed of sound is 343 meters per second.\n\nA 1 meter wavelength then would be a frequency of 1/343 hertz.\n\nA tube will produce most easily a wavelength equal to it's length.  It can also produce a wave length of twice it's length.\n\nAll other tones will be some division of these lengths.\n\nA 12 meter tube would produce wave lengths of 24m (twice the tube) 12m (equal), 6m (half), 4m (a third), 3m (a quarter), 2m (a sixth) etc.  They will all will be completely divisible into the tube.\n\nThat makes frequencies of 12/343 Hz, etc.
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You might want to ask this question in Music, instead of Physics.\n\nBut here are some links to start with:\nhttp://www.history-of-rock.com/guitarstwo.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar\nhttp://www.guitarsite.com/history.htm\nGibson: http://www.riffinteractive.com/expguitar/ElectricGuitarRoots1.htm
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The speed of sound: 340.29 m / s
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There is another interesting notion.  Dr. Robert Moog, inventor of the musical synthesizer bearing his name, pointed out in a discussion of it that it attempts to duplicate the characteristics of the various musical instruments.  For example, he pointed out that if a trombone player (like me) wants to hit a high note, a sharp attack on the note will lend more of the available energy to the upper harmonics.  If all the harmonics are present, it may then be very important which harmonics are most energetic.  The difference between the distinctive sounds of a clarinet and a sax is in part due to the emphasis or de-emphasis of certain harmonics (odd or even), etc. because the instruments are respectively cylinders and cones.
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I assume you mean the resonant frequency.\n\nThere is no resonant frequency for air, because air is not rigid. Sound resonance depends on the cavity that contains the air, such as an organ pipe.
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Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string. These musical notes could be said to be excitation modes of that guitar string under tension. \n In a similar manner, in string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the "musical notes" or excitation modes of elementary strings. \n In string theory, as in guitar playing, the string must be stretched under tension in order to become excited. However, the strings in string theory are floating in spacetime, they aren't tied down to a guitar. Nonetheless, they have tension. The string tension in string theory is denoted by the quantity 1/(2 p a'), where a' is pronounced "alpha prime"and is equal to the square of the string length scale.
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The pickups are small magnets.  Wires are wrapped around the base of the magnets, with an inlet and an outlet.  When the strings vibrate, the metal moving through a magnetic field induces a change in the magnetic field (since the magnets magnetize the strings themselves, and a moving magnetic field induces a current in a nearby conductor--see faraday's principle of inductance).  The current will oscillate with the frequency of the string--this gives the frequency of the sound.
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just like any other electric guitar.\nsee some guitars, follow the link\n:>peace
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Acoustics is the science that deals with sound.