Aug-Sept 01 Calendar

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
27 August	28 Classes Start Class Procedures/Syllabus VAB intro HW: Read Syllabus, Study for syllabus quiz	29 Syllabus Quiz Chapter 1: Intro to Engineering VAB Work on 0.1-0.3 Homework	30 VAB intro Continued VAB 1.0 introduction HW: Work on "Top 20" report	31 "Top 20 Engineering Feats of the 20th Century" due VAB 2.1:Plots of speech Quick Quiz on DSK Board HW: Read through Chapter 2.2
3 September No School Labor Day Holiday	4 Ch. 2.1- Creating Digital Music intro VAB 2.2: Sketchwave Bring Graphing Calculators to class for rest of trimester! HW: Exercises # 2.1	5 Ch. 2.1 VAB 2.2: Sketchwave II HW: Exercises 2.2.5	6 Ch. 2.2- sound Synthesis VAB 2.3- 2.7 HW: Read 2.3, 2.4; Study for Ch. 2 Quiz	7 Ch. 2.3- Waveform Synthesis VAB 2.3- 2.7 Chapter 2.0- 2.3 intro quiz HW: Read 2.5; Exercise #2.3.3
10 Sinusoids VAB 2.8:MIDI Player started HW: Sinusoid Plotting Exercise	11 Ch. 2.4- Additive Synthesis VAB 2.8 finished Fourier Synthesis Applets run HW: Fourier Synthesis Applets run and waveform series documented	12 Ch. 2.4- Fourier Analysis I VAB 2.9 finished VAB: Decomposing Sounds HW:Exercise #2.4.3	13 Chapter 2.4 finished VAB 2.10 HW: Prelab for VAB 2.11 placed into lab book; Study for Quiz over Ch. 2.3- 2.4	14 Chapter 2.4 Quiz Ch 2.5- Spectrograms VAB 2.11 HW: Read Ch. 2.5; do written Ch. 2 vocab and objectives
17 Ch. 2.5 finished VAB 2.11 Spectrograms finished HW: VAB Lab 2.11 write-up in lab book	18 Test Review for Chapter 2 HW: Chapter 2 Study	19 Chapter 2 test HW: Read 3.1- 3.3	20 Ch. 3: Digital Instruments Intro; Sound production & capture Intro HW: Exercises 3.1.4	21 Ch. 3 Physics of Sound I HW: Exercises 3.1.3, #4-6 as bonus; Exercises 3.2.2
24 Ch. 3.1 Physics of Sound II HW: Go through Ch. 3 Weblinks #1-5. See details in Homework.	25 Ch.3 Human Hearing System VAB 3.1 Hearing Range HW: Handouts "I'm All Ears" + "Double Bass Redoubled" Questions	26 Chapter 3 intro quiz Ch. 3.2 Physical Modeling 1; VAB 3.2 Guitar String Model started HW: Exercises 3.2.2 finished if not done in class	27 No School Yom Kippur Holiday	28 Ch. 3.2 Physical Modeling 2 VAB 3.2 finished HW: "Resonance" Handout Packet read and Case Questions p.10, #1-3 answered