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What information is stored on gramaphones/tape recorders/CDs/DVDs
I'm a Software Developer by profession and my physics knowledge is limited what I had learned at high school level. Please excuse me if the question is trivial.
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From what I know, a sound ...
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Does light have timbre?
Timbre is a property associated with the shape of a sound wave, that is, the coefficients of the discrete Fourier transform of the corresponding signal. This is why a violin and a piano can each play ...
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Physics of a guitar
I understand that when you pluck a guitar string, then a bunch of harmonic frequencies are produced rather than just the frequency of the desired note.
If this is true, why does C2 sound so different ...
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How to distinguish female and male voices via Fourier analysis?
What makes one, without looking, be able to identify the gender of the talker as male or female?
I mean if we Fourier analysed the voice of males and females, how the 2 spectrums are different which ...
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Fourier transformation in nature/natural physics?
I just came from a class on Fourier Transformations as applied to signal processing and sound. It all seems pretty abstract to me, so I was wondering if there were any physical systems that would ...
