Testi di livello universitario per chi vuole approfondire gli argomenti della sezione "Formule e approfondimenti" e, più in generale, la fisica delle onde, l'acustica e la psicoacustica. Letture divulgative: La fisica delle onde, Il suono e la sua percezione, La musica e gli strumenti musicali.

University-level texts for those who want to study the topics of the section "Formulae and in-depth study" and, more generally, the physics of waves, acoustics and psychoacoustics. Popular reading: Physics of waves, Sound and its perception, Music and musical instruments.

Oscillazioni e onde / Vibrations and waves

• Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I, Addison-Wesley, Reading (MA) 1963 (capitoli / chapters 21–25 e/and 47–51); New Millennium Edition, Basic Books, New York 2010, online, California Institute of Technology. Open Library
  • Edizione italiana / Italian edition: La fisica di Feynman, Zanichelli, Bologna 2017. SBN
• Frank S. Crawford Jr., Waves, Berkeley Physics Course, vol. 3, McGraw-Hill, New York 1968. Open Library
  • Edizione italiana / Italian edition: La fisica di Berkeley 3. Onde e oscillazioni, Zanichelli, Bologna 1972. SBN
• Anthony P. French, Vibrations and Waves, M.I.T. Introductory Physics Series, W. W. Norton, New York 1971. Open Library
• H. John Pain, The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, 6th ed., Wiley, Chichester 2005. doi:10.1002/0470016957
• Yen-Jie Lee, 8.03SC Physics III: Vibrations and Waves, MIT OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2016 (lezioni video e dispense / video lectures and notes).
• Ronald N. Bracewell, The Fourier Transform and Its Applications, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, Boston 2000. Open Library
• James Lighthill, Waves in Fluids, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1978; ristampa / reprint Cambridge Mathematical Library, 2001. Open Library
• Eugene Hecht, Optics, 5th ed., Pearson, Boston 2017. Open Library
• John David Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed., Wiley, New York 1999. Open Library

Acustica / Acoustics

• Lord Rayleigh (John William Strutt), The Theory of Sound, 2nd ed., 2 vol., Macmillan, London 1894–1896; ristampa / reprint Dover, New York 1945. Open Library
• Philip M. Morse, Vibration and Sound, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, New York 1948; ristampa / reprint Acoustical Society of America, 1981. Open Library
• Philip M. Morse, K. Uno Ingard, Theoretical Acoustics, McGraw-Hill, New York 1968; ristampa / reprint Princeton University Press, Princeton 1986. Open Library
• Lawrence E. Kinsler, Austin R. Frey, Alan B. Coppens, James V. Sanders, Fundamentals of Acoustics, 4th ed., Wiley, New York 2000. Open Library
• Sjoerd W. Rienstra, Avraham Hirschberg, An Introduction to Acoustics, Eindhoven University of Technology, versione aggiornata / updated version 2026 (PDF).
• Heinrich Kuttruff, Room Acoustics, 6th ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton 2016. doi:10.1201/9781315372150
• Thomas D. Rossing (ed.), Springer Handbook of Acoustics, 2nd ed., Springer, New York 2014. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0755-7

Acustica musicale / Musical acoustics

• Hermann von Helmholtz, Die Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik, Vieweg, Braunschweig 1863; English translation by Alexander J. Ellis, On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, 2nd ed., Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1885; ristampa / reprint Dover, New York 1954. Internet Archive
• Harry F. Olson, Music, Physics and Engineering, 2nd ed., Dover, New York 1967. Open Library
• Arthur H. Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, Oxford University Press, New York 1976; ristampa / reprint Dover, New York 1990. Open Library
• Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed., Springer, New York 1998. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21603-4
• Antoine Chaigne, Jean Kergomard, Acoustics of Musical Instruments, Springer, New York 2016. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-3679-3

Psicoacustica / Psychoacoustics

• Brian C. J. Moore, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th ed., Brill, Leiden 2013. Open Library
• Hugo Fastl, Eberhard Zwicker, Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models, 3rd ed., Springer, Berlin 2007. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68888-4

Effetti non lineari / Nonlinear effects

• Steven H. Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, 3rd ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton 2024. doi:10.1201/9780429398490
• Arkady Pikovsky, Michael Rosenblum, Jürgen Kurths, Synchronization: A Universal Concept in Nonlinear Sciences, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2001. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511755743
• Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, Stanislaw Ulam, Studies of Nonlinear Problems. I, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, report LA-1940, 1955. OSTI
• Thierry Dauxois, "Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and a mysterious lady", Physics Today 61 (1), 55–57 (2008). doi:10.1063/1.2835154