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Sounds of Music

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Course content was made from Sound Physics lead faculty, including:
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Arvyn De, a national gold medalist in Science Olympiad, founder of ScioVirtual, and biomedical engineering student at Georgia Tech. Arvyn has taught numerous physics courses at ScioVirtual.
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Ishaan Singh, top 10 national physics competitor in Science Olympiad nationals and member of Carmel Science Olympiad. Ishaan taught Musical Acoustics and Sound Physics.

Welcome to Sounds of Music, the pleasant (or unpleasant) marriage between wave physics and music theory, depending on your interests.

This guide will be looking at the knowledge portions of the Division B and C event specifically:

  1. General principles of acoustics
  2. Sound production
  3. Design, function, and construction of various instruments
  4. Music theory
Instructor Ishaan teaching the psychological effects of chords in ScioVirtual’s live Musical Acoustics course.
Instructor Ishaan teaching the psychological effects of chords in ScioVirtual’s live Musical Acoustics course.

Here are some general resources to start out with to learn the physics fundamentals (first two topics above):