Music in Physics or is this Physics in Music?

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Music in Physicsor is this Physics in Music?

• Sound Travels in Waves
• Scientific Jam
• by Jeffrey Hale and Scientific Jam

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Sounds from Saturns 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
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Space Audio

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

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Booming sands

• Booming 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
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Pholk Songs
Planet-X by Christine Lavin This is only a clip
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2000s

• Dark Matter Rap
• by David Weinberg
• High Energy Groove
• Swift Song
• The Chromatics-
• AstroCappela

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1950s-60s

• 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?

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In physics classes

• Snell's Law Songby Marian McKenzie  Walter Fox
  Smith
• Performed by Russ Dembin on guitar Eli
  Maniscalco on double bass

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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.

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Tom Lehrer-1951 Harvard Physics Dept

• There'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 giveThe 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 SongYou 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.
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Hired at Science gatherings

• From Cosmic Cabaret
• by Linda Williams
• the physics chanteuse
• Quark Song
• Quantum Jump

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Les Horrible Cernettes
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• Hurray for NMR Spectroscopy
• by Science Groove