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Re:Ohm Overlooked by zeckalpha on Saturday April 09, 2022 @11:28AM (#30968852)
> In addition to his electrical law, Ohm proposed an acoustic law which proposes that musical notes may be decomposed into a number of pure tones.

Sounds like FFTs! Anyone have a link for more about this?

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Re:Ohm Overlooked by _0ffh on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:53PM (#30969640)
Ohm proposed it and Helmholtz elaborated it in a book he published about "sound sensations", which I suppose would be called "psychoacoustics" in modern parlance.

I found it online [1] and let Google translate it [2].

[1] https://psychologie.lw.uni-leipzig.de/wundt/opera/helmhltz/t...

[2] https://psychologie-lw-uni--leipzig-de.translate.goog/wundt/...

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Re:Ohm Overlooked by dreamcompiler on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:55PM (#30970296)
More precisely the power spectral density, which is always real.

The human ear seems only sensitive to phase when locating sounds binaurally:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/277493/can-human...

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