Recording of the talk: Physics of Music

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The Lyceum Committee welcomes Dr. Alex. Weiss to discuss “Physics of Music”.  This virtual event will be held on Thursday, April 28 at 1 p.m.(EST). Please register in advance here.

Music is the art of arranging sound in time that shows different characteristics. Dr. Weiss will discuss the similarities and differences between sound and music, properties of sound waves and standing waves in addition to science of musical instruments and psychoacoustics.

Dr. Alexander H. Weiss is currently a distinguished professor of physics and the chair of the physics department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Brandeis University.  After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Weiss was a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University where he performed the first x-ray scattering measurements from liquid-gas interfaces.

For more information about this and other Lyceum events, please visit: https://blogs.nvcc.edu/lyceum/

Submitted by:
Manori Nadesalingam, AN-Physics, mnadesalingam@nvcc.edu