Mathematics 5 - Exploring Mathematics

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Dartmouth College

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08F: 10 09W: 10 09F, 10W: Arrange In 08F, The Mathematics of Music and Sound. Sound and music are integral parts of all cultures and are critical to human and animal communications. The production, transmission, and perception of sound is woven through with mathematics. With the goal of expanding both scientific and artistic horizons, we explore vibration, resonance, waves, musical instruments, the human ear, speech, architectural acoustics, harmony and dissonance, tuning systems, and musical composition. Hands-on project work may include time-frequency analysis, sound synthesis, inventing and building a new instrument. Prerequisite: high-school physics. Familiarity with musical notation or an instrument will help. Dist: QDS. Barnett. In 09W, A Matter of Time ( Identical to Comparative Literature 65 in 09W). Everybody knows about time. Our everyday language bears witness to the centrality of time with scores of words and expressions that refer to it as a measure, a frame of reference, or an ordering factor for our lives, feelings, dreams, and histories. Playing with time has been a favorite game in works of high culture-from the Greek sophists to cubism-and in popular culture-from H.G. Wells to Monty Python. And time is at the center of one of the most revolutionary scientific theories of all time: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In this course we will use mathematics, literature, and the arts to travel through history, to explore and understand Time as a key concept and reality in the development of Western culture and in our own twentieth century view of ourselves and the wor ld. Dist: Q DS. Lahr, Pasto

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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