Practical Physics, Molecular Physics, and Sound

Practical Physics

The Physics of Sound

Sound lies at the very center of speech communication. A sound wave is both the end product of the speech production mechanism and the primary source of raw material used by the listener to recover the speaker's message. Because of the central role played by sound in speech communication, it is important to have a good understanding of how sound is produced, modified, and measured. The purpose ...

Physics, Technology and Practical Considerations

Screen-film image receptors have been the standard detector used in conventional mammography. New developments in detector technology and computers are altering the landscape of mammography imaging. Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) offers the promise of revolutionizing the practice of mammography through its superior dose and contrast performance. Advanced applications made possible throug...

Practical Physics for Articulated Characters

This presentation describes a set of techniques for implementing a fast and stable dynamics simulator for articulated characters using an analytical constraint approach combined with Featherstone’s linear-time forward dynamics algorithm. It presents an efficient method for enforcing multiple simultaneous constraints on an articulated character in order to control the character’s motion and mode...

The Ballancer - Gesturally Controlled Physics-Based sound

Hands–on demonstration of the Ballancer, a tangible audio–visual “game” and experimental platform, that exemplifies gestural realtime control of a physically-based sound generation algorithm.