Understanding The Physics Behind Sound and Music
(World News Science)

Dr. Michael Ruiz, professor of physics at UNC Asheville, was invited by the Asheville Museum of Science in partnership with The Collider to give a presentation on the physics behind sound and music. Ruiz said that when sound travels through a pipe, the longer the pipe, the lower the pitch of the sound that comes out. `If you have two smooth pipes with one being six percent longer, the sound the longer pipe produces will be a semi-tone lower like the next key to the left on a piano.` Ruiz asked what movie music goes back and forth between two notes? `Jaws, when the shark is approaching,` he exclaimed. `John...