Lecture Notes for Com Sci 295, Digital Sound Modelling

Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago

Last modified: Thu May 18 09:16:13 1995

• The lecture notes in LaTeX source, DVI, and PostScript forms.
• Figures in encapsulated PostScript form
  • Ideal spring resonator
  • Qualitative states of spring
  • State and change vectors for vibrating spring
  • Spring system vs. rotor
  • Rotor state parameters x and y as functions of time t
  • Rotor parameters x and y vs. t as a helix in three dimensions
  • Adding two complex numbers
  • The conjugate of a complex number
  • Complex number: Cartesian and polar coordinates
  • Decaying helix
  • Increasing frequency helix
  • Sum of 4 helixes
• Supporting materials in Maple source form, including formulae, plots, and animations.
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 6 (these materials are under development, and still contain errors and problems)
  • Demonstration #31 on ASA CD
• Supporting materials in Nyquist source form, and audio files compiled from them.
• Direct access to the working files

odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu