The Archives
-
Podcast
What is Amplitude?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:15 — 5.8MB)
Continuing our “Media Science” series on sound, we discuss amplitude.
We use the familiar example of a guitar making noise to show that amplitude as a percieved loudness. This episode wraps up our media science series on the basics of sound. There is more to learn and understand about sound, but the series of three episodes will give you an understanding of the physics of sound.
-
Podcast
What is Frequency?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:36 — 8.9MB)
Continuing our “Media Science” series, we discuss frequency.
We use different different examples of frequency creation to show that frequency as a measurement of time. Also defined is the period of a wavelength in relation to frequency.
-
Podcast
What is Sound?
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:56 — 9.2MB)
This show starts a series about the basics of production. We answer the question “What is sound?” and give two examples of things that create sound and how they create sound.
Image from afsilva
