{"id":6488,"date":"2011-09-16T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2011-09-16T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T23:01:47","slug":"friday-math-movie-the-math-of-sound-frequency-and-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-math-of-sound-frequency-and-pitch-6488","title":{"rendered":"Friday math movie: The math of sound, frequency and pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The full title of today's movie is \"What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch)\".<\/p>\n<p>The ever-enthusiastic Vi Hart gives us a whirlwind tour of sound, waves, music, fluid, swings, violas, membranes and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n<h2>Math and music<\/h2>\n<p>I've been interested in the interplay of math and music most of my life. I loved it when I found out Pythagoras was into analyzing \"nice\" sounds mathematically (this video includes this topic).<\/p>\n<p>For some background which may help to understand this video, see<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/trigonometric-graphs\/music.php\">What are the frequencies of music notes?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/fourier-series\/6-line-spectrum.php\">Line Spectrum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/fourier-series\/7-fast-fourier-transform-fft.php\">FFT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On with the show.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoBG\">\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_0DXxNeaQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>You really need to watch the video a few times - it is somewhat over the top...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/videos\/friday-math-movie-the-math-of-sound-frequency-and-pitch-6488\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Math of music\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/09\/math-music.jpg\" title=\"Math of music\" width=\"128\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgRt\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVi Hart gives us an enthusiastic overview of how music and math relate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}