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A simple experiment demonstrating the connection between chaos and music

Physics Education 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

In this pedagogical paper we study the dripping pattern of a leaking faucet which we analyse on the basis of a musical procedure which we outline and match the power spectral density of these drops (which are recorded as noise signals over time) to verify the 1fβ\frac{1}{f^{\beta}} power law which characterizes the nature of such systems with non linear characteristics.

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@article{arxiv.1411.5334,
  title  = {A simple experiment demonstrating the connection between chaos and music},
  author = {Nitica Sakharwade and Sayak Dasgupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.5334},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages including Appendix, 9 figures

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