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michaelp7
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Hi everyone,
I'm working on a presentation for a physics class, and I've run into some difficulty. Our group is trying to explain why the bells on brass instruments allow more efficient energy transfer into the environment. I've tried a number of sources, including the book by Barry Parker and that by Rossing Moore & Wheeler, as well as the following sites:
http://www.victor-victrola.com/Fundamentals of Horns.htm
http://www.jstor.org/stable/84052
(The first is non-mathematical but on-topic. The second is somewhat dense, and I couldn't bring its results into a more digestible or pertinent framework.)
If anyone knows of an accessible mathematical explanation of this topic, I would really appreciate it. Apologies if this counts as homework-- I wasn't sure how to classify the question.
I'm working on a presentation for a physics class, and I've run into some difficulty. Our group is trying to explain why the bells on brass instruments allow more efficient energy transfer into the environment. I've tried a number of sources, including the book by Barry Parker and that by Rossing Moore & Wheeler, as well as the following sites:
http://www.victor-victrola.com/Fundamentals of Horns.htm
http://www.jstor.org/stable/84052
(The first is non-mathematical but on-topic. The second is somewhat dense, and I couldn't bring its results into a more digestible or pertinent framework.)
If anyone knows of an accessible mathematical explanation of this topic, I would really appreciate it. Apologies if this counts as homework-- I wasn't sure how to classify the question.
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