Symphony

Sorry there's no picture but my camera or computer was going nuts. Anywho, on Sunday, I went to the Honolulu Symphony's performance of The Story of Babar at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. While there, I just happened to notice some physics in the performance. I noted that all instruments create music using vibrations. Whether its a violin, a drum, or a tuba, it is the vibration of air that makes music. This vibration showed a couple of concepts like Newton's laws. The strings don't make any noise if nothing is done to them obviously. However, when they do begin to vibrate, it takes a while for the strings to stop. The cause of the vibration, the friction between the strings and the bow, and the vibration of the air, caused by energy being transferred from the strings to the air, all demonstrate a transition of energy and that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Music is full of physics.