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Why should someone be attracted to a book on the Physics of Music and Color? For those people who are well versed in both the sciences and the arts, the question would very likely not arise. But for those who are well versed in but one of these areas, the relationship between the two is probably unclear, if not a total mystery. Let us consider two contrary attitudes to the role the study of physics can make with regards to our sense of the world about us. One is by the great poet Walt Whitman, and the other by the renowned physicist Richard Feynman (Fig. 1.1).
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Based on the journal article, Physics Today, March 2010 issue, with quotes from Alice Calaprice’s The Expanded Quotable Einstein. [Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 2000].
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Taken from A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews, by Arbie Orenstein, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1990).
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How interesting it is that in recent times, a large fraction of society abhors the possible squelching of the senses by excessive thought.
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The graph represents the output of a single loudspeaker; for stereophonic sound, we would simply need two such graphs.
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Gunther, L. (2012). Introductory Remarks. In: The Physics of Music and Color. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0557-3_1
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