Mahogany Physical Properties

[indysmith]

Hey guys. I have this physics project to do for my A-level coursework, where we have to find out about and do a presentation on a material. I have chosen mahogany as a tonewood.
I know there's a few guitar builders on this forum, and i thought that maybe you could tell me what makes Mahogany such a good tonewood. I'll need some physical specs and what makes it resonateso well, where another material would not.
Thanks for any help!
I knew one day i'd have an excuse to be on this forum in a lesson!
I also know that the name Mahogany applies to a variety of different woods, and any information about the differences between these, and how and why they are different would be greatly appreciated.

[Ratrod]

There's alot of info on tonewoods on the warmoth and ed roman sites.

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/options/options_bodywoods.cfm

http://www.edromanguitars.com/wood/main.htm

[indysmith]

thanks for those man, but i'm kind of looking for something a bit more scientific and in-depth. If there's any books that could recommended then that'd be great too!

[Peterku]

Just use Google. You'll find plenty of sites like this one:

http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/chemdata/woods.htm

[Brow]

http://www.jemsite.com/jem/wood.htm is a good site for info on woods.

I'm not sure if it's indepth enough for what you want, but it's an idea :)