I’m not sure how many people realize how much physics there
actually is in music. In fact, the art of music is a branch of physics all on
its own, called musical acoustics. The mathematics applied to this artistic field actually present beautiful and intriguing sounds that one would
never think of directly, but at the same time has already intuitively known.
Here’s an example of what I mean. If you play an instrument,
you’re already familiar with the major scale: a series of whole notes that make
a pleasing sound. In reality, every note in that scale is repeating sound wave,
buffeting the medium around it at a certain frequency. This translates into a
musical tone when it hits your eardrum. Yet did you ever consider that, by measuring these
frequencies, all of these tones can be connected through the wonderful world of numbers?
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| YES! MATH! |
