/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11126766
I made this for another discussion but some of it is relevant to your question.

The sound waves produced by instruments can be expressed as sums of sine waves of varying frequencies, called a superposition of waves. You can change the timbre of the instrument by changing the relative strength of the sines being added, or changing their phase relative to each other.
When you pluck/strike a string you force the string into a particular shape which will have a particular superposition of sine waves, then when you let go those sine waves evolve independently according to the physics of the string and that produces the sound. By changing how the pluck you can change the initial superposition and so you get different sounds. My fav example is plucking a guitar string from the middle and then its end, the difference is obvious and you can hear how plucking at the end requires more high frequency waves.

>Model reality with mathematical object called a field
>Retards start sperging out about what is real
Go read some philosophy