Today I attended the weekly physics department colloquium, "The Ancient Science of Violin-Making". It was FASCINATING. Not as high-tech as most colloquia we have, but it drew a lot more people from the community/music department as well.
Two things I learned:
-When a faucet is turned on, the human ear can distinguish between hot and cold water.
-Researchers took three plates and adjusted them to play at exactly the same pitch. By computer analysis, the sounds were exactly the same. There was one each of the shapes circle, square, and triangle, and subjects could identify the shape when played.
The human ear is amazing. Amazing.
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