This is a project I did in the spring of 1998 for my physics class. We were allowed to do a project
on any topic we liked. For my project I chose to examine a theory that I had been contemplating
for while, namely, I believed that there was a way to quantify the notion of dissonance
and consonance in music. More specifically, I sought a formula/algorithm which would return a
value quantifying our notion of "harmonic tension" for a given chord.
In this report I examine the results generated by my proposed
algorithm.
