Teaching Fourier Analysis and Physics with the Bass Guitar

[b-b-b-bass]

curiosity got the cat....
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0605/0605154.pdf

[the_thriller]

Hurray physics! This is what I plan to (hopefully) do next year when I go for my masters (well, this and various other things).

I was hoping to see some integrals and evaluations of complex equations, though

[fdeck]

Originally Posted by the_thriller

I was hoping to see some integrals and evaluations of complex equations, though

For a smattering of complex math, check out the descriptions of speaker behavior at my little website. I wrote this up when I was teaching electrodynamics to undergraduate engineering majors, because I thought it would pull together a lot of different subjects for them. Then I quit teaching. Still, it was an interesting exercise.

[asad137]

You should window your timestreams so there's less spectral leakage in your FFT's and the peaks are more well-defined. I find Hanning to be a good, all-purpose window, and will make your FFT's look a lot better, IMO (and will also save you the time of having to answer your students questions about why all the peaks have 'wings', unless it's specifically part of the scope of your course).

Asad