source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 18:51:20 +0100 Subject: RE: PLANCK CONSTANT From: "Paul H. Erlich" Gary Morrison wrote, >}Based upon what I do know of the topic, here's the answer: Unlike in >}light, there's no simple correlation between higher vibratory frequencies >}in an audio system and higher energy. Light is an absolutely direct form >}of energy, whereas sound is a much more complicated and round-about >}physical manifestation of energy. It involves pressure in a medium, which >}is based upon collisions of randomly-moving molecules in the medium, and so >}forth. So you can't apply that equation to audio; the wavelength (nu) >}term in "E = H nu" doesn't apply to sound waves. > >Gary, this is not correct. E = H nu applies to all energy quanta, whether in >the form of light, sound, or whatever. The quantum of light is the photon; >the quantum of sound is the phonon. Just as sound can be viewed as >oscillations in a medium, so can light -- the medium is the electromagnetic >field. This wave-particle duality is quite unbelievable to anyone who has not >studied quantum mechanics in depth; for those of us who have, the duality is >easy to accept, but there are deeper mysteries that take its place (my >favorite subject besides tuning). SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Paul H. Erlich" Subject: motherlode? PostedDate: 30-12-97 19:00:41 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 30-12-97 18:58:25-30-12-97 18:58:25,30-12-97 18:57:48-30-12-97 18:57:49 DeliveredDate: 30-12-97 18:57:49 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C125657D.0062B713; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:00:10 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA28093; Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:00:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:00:41 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA28207 Received: (qmail 14311 invoked from network); 30 Dec 1997 10:00:38 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Dec 1997 10:00:38 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu