COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHYSICS OF SOUND: HEARING AND BASIC CONCEPTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZK 1010 PHYSICS OF SOUND: HEARING AND BASIC CONCEPTS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Department of Musicology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR FERIDUN ÖZIŞ

Offered to

Music Sciences
Music Technology
Musicology

Course Objective

Understanding sound propagation in rooms and hearing mechanism

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   understand sound propagation and basic concepts of sound
2   know necessary preliminary information for the basic research areas of music technology.
3   .Understand interdiciplinary structure of music technology
4   know the perception of sounds
5   understand the physical structures of sounds

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Sound propagation mechanisms,
2 2. Resonance and resonators
3 Self-vibration and standing waves
4 Beats
5 Noise
6 structure of the ear
7 Mid-term exams
8 Review of exam and the old topics
9 Equal-loudness contour
10 Directional coding of ear
11 Sound power
12 Psychoacoustics
13 Inverse square law and Haas effects
14 Basic acoustic Concepts

Recomended or Required Reading

Text Book(s)/Required Readings:
Asst. Prof Feridun Öziş, Sound physics lecture notes

Additional Sources:
Ayhan Zeren, Sound Psychics , Pan Yayıncılık, 1995

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

understand the physical structures of sounds

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Explanation of concepts with audio and visual materials

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students arriving after the begining of class will not be allowed into the classroom until the break and their attendance will be taken into account as half. At the end of each class the students will be given the subjects for the next class.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

feridun.ozis@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

No office hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparation for tutorial exam 4 2 8
Reading 4 2 8
1 2 2
1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO
LO.1
LO.2
LO.3
LO.4
LO.5