Music (Chapter 14)
- Horns, Strings, and Harmonyby Arthur H. Benade (Dover, 1992).
A good survey of the physics of music and musical instruments. - Good Vibrations: The Physics of Musicby Barry Parker (Johns Hopkins, 2009).
A recent non-mathematical book on the physics of music. - Musical Acoustics(3rd ed.) by Donald E. Hall (Brooks/Cole, 2002).
An undergraduate textbook on the physics of music.
Electricity and Magnetism (Part III)
- Fundamentals of Electric Wavesby Hugh Hildreth Skilling (Krieger, 1948).
A brief, very clear book on electric waves (but requires a background in the calculus). - The Lightning Dischargeby Martin A. Uman (Dover, 2001).
A good book on the science of lightning by a well-known researcher. - “A Bolt Out of the Blue” by Joseph R. Dwyer,Scientific American, May 2005.
A recent article on some of the latest developments in lightning research.
Electronics (Part III)
- Getting Started in Electronicsby Forrest M. Mims III (Master Publishing, 2000).
This is a very brief (128 pp.), informal, hand-written (!) book on analog and digital electronics, aimed
mainly at electronics hobbyists. Lots of good information on both theory and practical electronics, and
easy to read. - Electronic Principles(6th ed.) by Albert P. Malvino (Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 1999).
A standard, well-regarded undergraduate text on electronics, at roughly the level of this course. - The Art of Electronics(3rd ed.) by Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill (Cambridge, 2015).
An advanced book on analog and digital electronics, covering basically anything you would ever want
to know about electronics. This book is widely regarded as a standard reference in the field. The book
has a Web site athttp://www.artofelectronics.com/. - Lessons in Electric Circuitsis a free electronic book, available on the Internet at:
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/. This book starts with the basics, yet
covers a lot of material. The entire book is in six volumes, and is over 2700 pages long. - Bebop to the Boolean Boogie(3rd ed.) by Clive “Max” Maxfield (Newnes, 2009).
An informal, easy-to-read introductory book on digital electronics. - Digital Fundamentals(10th ed.) by Thomas L. Floyd (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009).
A standard undergraduate text on digital electronics, at roughly the level of this course.