Physics of a guitar

[idssdi]

I’ve been thinking about writing a small article on the physics of a guitar just for fun for a while now. So I’m wondering are there people here whi would be interested in that? If so I’ll probably start writing it in April/May/June depending on when I have time

 

[Matt Wildman]

Im interested.

 

[Josh Wright]

Definitely interested!

 

[Elton Breaux]

In the words or zacky V
“DO IT”

 

[Matt Wildman]

Or the emperor in star wars. “Dew it”

 

[Guest]

Do it, yes but seriously yeah I would like to see that.

 

[Billie M]

omg yes! I’m studying physics engineering! This would be so cool!!

 

[Josh Wright]

I did a project in my high school physics class on the harmonics on guitar, and I had to demonstrate harmonics to my class using my guitar. Of course that was the day I couldn’t hit any harmonic to save my life. I looked like I didn’t know how to play at all.

 

[idssdi]

i did a project on the difference between steel and nylon strings

 

[Lauren Morales]

Yeah, it would be interesting. You should do it.

 

[Julian Barton]

I would love to see this as well as the project! I love learning things.

 

[John Tierney]

When I got my first active pickup guitar (the one I use now) I was in Calculus physics 2 and we were learning about current and magnetic fields and all I could see is the schematics of my guitar. Honestly knowing some of the physics behind it is very helpful in knowing about maintenance, harmonics and rationale of theory. Id be down

 

[idssdi]

Calculus 2 is vectors and stuff right?

 

[John Tierney]

Calc 1 was vectors and that thing. Calc 2 was like E-fields and B-fields and how protons flow through circuits and doing current and resistance etc. Every school is different tbh

 

[idssdi]

ooh for me calculus 1 was like limits and stuff like that, calculus 2 was divergence theorem and stuff like them and for E and B fields we get electricity and magnetism( which is vasically surface of a sphere, ampere’s law and stuff like that)

 

[Donnie Keeney]

I would be interested. Would it focus more on the magnetic field and how the electronics work or on vibrations of the string and the logarithmic scale that determines the pitch?

 

[idssdi]

maybe both! Mostly mechanics stuff probsbly because that’s what I like