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Sound
Resonance and Sound…Physics and Music
Since sound is the medium of music, most of the physics of music is the physics of sound.
It's important to remember that sound waves are compression waves. You can imitate a compression wave by stretching out a slinky (you do have a slinky, don't you?) and flicking your finger against a coil at the end. Sound waves are not like the waves on the ocean or the waves you get by waving a stretched-out rope.
Take a tuning fork (you do have a tuning fork, don't you?) and whack it on your knee. What do you hear?
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