Music in Physicsor is this

Physics in Music?

Sound Travels in Waves

Scientific Jam

by Jeffrey Hale and Scientific Jam

Sounds from Saturn’s Aurora

Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting these radio emissions in April 2002 when Cassini was 2.5 astronomical units from the planet using the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument. The structures in the emission indicate that there are numerous small radio sources moving along magnetic field lines threading the auroral region. Time on this recording has been compressed such that 73 seconds corresponds to 27 minutes, or, the recording is at 22x real time. Since the frequencies of these emissions are well above the audio frequency range, they have shifted them downward by a factor of 44. Bill Kurth RPWS Deputy Principal Investigator

Space Audio

The University of IowaCluster Earth Auroral Kilometric Radiation in Stereo. Professor Don Gurnett

Booming sandsBooming sands are dunes made of sand that has traveled long distances from its original source. The sand's lengthy, windy journey means that grains deposited on the surface of the dune are extremely round, smooth, and uniform. Booming sand makes loud, low-frequency sounds of 50 to 300 hertz. During a large avalanche, the booming can be heard more than six miles away and standing near its locus can be deafening.

From NOVA Science NOW

Pholk Songs

Planet-X by Christine Lavin

This is only a clip

2000’s

• Dark Matter Rap

by David Weinberg

• High Energy Groove • Swift Song

The Chromatics-

AstroCappela

1950’s-60’s

by Hy Zaret (William Stirrat

lyricist) and Lou Singer

(song writer)

Performed by Tom Glazer and Dottie Evans.

Why do stars twinkle?

How do we measure energy?

In physics classes

Snell's Law Songby Marian McKenzie & Walter Fox Smith

Performed by Russ Dembin on guitar & Eli Maniscalco on double bass

1947

Music and lyrics by Arthur Roberts

The Cyclotronist's Nightmare (or Eighty Millicuries by Half-Past Nine)

Lead vocal: Everett W. Hall, chorus the Iowa physics dept.

Tom Lehrer-1951 Harvard Physics DeptThere's a delta for every epsilon,It's a fact that you can always count upon.There's a delta for every epsilonAnd now and again,There's also an N.But one condition I must give:The epsilon must be positiveA lonely life all the others live,In no theoremA delta for them.How sad, how cruel, how tragic,How pitiful, and other adjec-tives that I might mention.The matter merits our attention.If an epsilon is a hero,Just because it is greater than zero,It must be mighty discouragin'To lie to the left of the origin.This rank discrimination is not for us,We must fight for an enlightened calculus,Where epsilons all, both minus and plus,Have deltasTo call their own.

The Derivative Song:You take a function of x and you call it y,Take any x0 that you care to try,Make a little change and call it delta-x,The corresponding change in y is what you find nex',And then you take the quotient, and now carefullySend delta-x to zero and I think you'll see,That what the limit gives us, if our work all checks,Is what we call dy/dx, it's just dy/dx.

Hired at Science gatherings

From Cosmic Cabaret

by Linda Williams

the physics chanteuse

• Quark Song

• Quantum Jump

Les Horrible Cernettes

Hurray for NMR Spectroscopy

by Science Groove