Acknowledgements

The laboratory activities in this book evolved out of a set of lab activities I created for Physics 115: The Physics of Music at UMass. When I began teaching the course, I relied on lecture notes provided to me by my colleague Stephane Willocq, who in turn inherited lecture materials from past instructors of the course. The lab activities were based on experiments and demonstrations I developed for a similar course while on the faculty at Western New England University, with the help of my friend and colleague Karl Martini. These evolved into the current set over the five times I taught the course at UMass Amherst.

This online book was made possible by the efforts of Aidan Philbin, UMass BS Physics class of 2021, who also served as a teaching assistant for the class in Spring 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic ensured that the class took place, synchronously, on Zoom, and necessitated some adjustment of the usual in-person lab activities. This was done in collaboration with an excellent team of graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants: Kyle Sullivan, Physics grad; Aniketh Acharya, MS Computer Science Spring 2021, Lillian Wright, sophomore Physics and Astronomy major, and Aidan Philbin. Coming into this project with ample experience working in the Physics lecture demonstration laboratory, Aidan has added in-person and online versions of the labs, where relevant, each in a chapter of its own. The idea of visually separating activities from questions was his. He also stepped in to create videos for the online lab exercises. For this, I am forever grateful.

The in-person lab activities were refined over the years with a number of stellar grad and undergrad TAs, with many musicians among them: grad students Jeff Gertler, Daria Atkinson, Andrew Schick, and Matt DeCapua, and current and former undergrads Francesca Walsh, Marshall Cavallo, Rishika Kumar, Neil McCarthy, Jonathan Cali, and Joshua Bednaz. My profound thanks to them all.

Shubha Tewari, July 2021.