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Reddit mentions of Vibrations and Waves (M.I.T. Introductory Physics)
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| Height | 9.3 Inches |
| Length | 6.2 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | January 1971 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Width | 0.6 Inches |
We used this one in my Waves and Optics course. It's excellent, I'd highly recommend it.
You mean the harmonics? They have different amplitudes because there is less energy available to higher harmonics.
Finding the amplitude of a periodic function (which is what acoustic waves are) is a matter of studying the wave equation and how infinite series can be used to describe complex waveforms. If you really want to understand this, you're going to have to study the physics of wave phenomena. I don't think Reddit is the place to do this, and even if it was I just don't have the time to explain it to you. Sorry.
That being said, I can recommend books to you. The standard text for many physics departments (MIT still uses it) is Vibrations and Waves by A.P. French. A more general book about musical acoustics is Benade's Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics.
You should probably start with the latter and not the former.