
Physics in the Arts
Description
Key Features
- Offers an alternative route to science literacy for those interested in the visual arts, music and photography
- Includes a new and unique quantitative encoding approach to color vision, additive and subtractive color mixing, a section on a simplified approach to quantitative digital photography, how the ear-brain system works as a Fourier analyzer, and updated and expanded exercises and solutions
- Provides a wealth of student resources including in-text solutions and online materials including demo and lecture videos, practice problems, and other useful files: https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals/book-companion/9780128243473
- Supplies teaching materials for qualified instructors, including chapter image banks, model homework sets, and model exams: ttps://educate.elsevier.com/book/details/9780128243473
Readership
Undergraduate students
Table of Contents
1. Light and Light Waves
2. Reflection and Refraction
3. Lenses
4. The Human Eye
5. Photography
6. Color and Color Vision
7. Additive Color Mixing
8. Subtractive Color Mixing
9. Color Generating Mechanisms
10. Sound Waves
11. Simple Harmonic Motion
12. Damping and Resonance
13. Vibration of Strings
14. Waves in Pipes
15. Superposition, beats, and Harmony
16. Musical Scales
17. Fourier Analysis
18. Musical Instruments
19. Sound Perception: Timbre, Loudness, and Pitch
20. The Ear
21. Solutions to Problems
Product details
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2021
- Published: January 16, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128243473
- eBook ISBN: 9780128243480
About the Author
Pupa Gilbert

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Ratings and Reviews
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Shane T. Fri Jan 21 2022
Physics in the Arts
This is an excellent book for an introductory physics course that is aimed towards students who are majoring in the arts. This edition is well written and builds upon a fantastic first edition. The conceptual explanations are spot-on and I find that I can add some mathematical rigor, but that should be left to the individual instructor. I only wish that the book had additional sections on he physics of sculpture and dance. That would cover most of the topics in the common arts curriculum. My students have commented that they enjoyed reading the book!