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Acoustics pt. 1 Flashcards

1
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The branch of physics concerned with sound deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound?

A

Acoustics

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2
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3 parts of elements?

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Sound Source, Transmission Path, and Reciever

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3
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Human speech and HVAC equipment?

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Sound Source

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4
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Air, Earth, and Building materials?

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Transmission Path

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5
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Humans, Animals, and Sensitive Medical Equipment?

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Receiver

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6
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Types of Acoustics?

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Psycho Acoustics, Environmental Acoustics, Electro Acoustics and Sonics

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Types of Environmental Acoustics?

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Architectural/ Room Acoustics and Landscape Acoustics

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Is a physical wave or a mechanical vibration, or simply a series of pressure variations in an elastic medium?

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Sound

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The pitch of a sound is generally thought of as the ‘highness’ or ‘lowness’ of a sound?

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Pitch

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The sound fluctuation of these waves, called oscillations, can be measured by the number of wave cycles per second. referred to as the frequency of the sound?

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Frequency

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11
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Frequency is quantified using a unit of measurement known as?

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Hertz

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The distinctive quality, pitch, or condition of a person’s speech produced?

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Voice

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13
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A cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea?

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Voice Box/larynx

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The human ear can recognize the sounds of frequencies in the range of 20 Hz to 20,000Hz?

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Audible sound

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15
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Sounds of frequencies less than 20 Hz are called?

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Infrasonic sounds

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The sounds of frequencies greater than 20,000 Hz are called?

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Ultrasonic sounds

17
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Height of the sound wave. (our perception of loudness) is influenced by both the frequency and timbre of a sound?

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Amplitude of sound

18
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The unique sound or tone color produced by every instrument and voice is known?

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Timbre

19
Q

A unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound?

A

Sabin

20
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High fidelity sound -Accuracy of the sound or image of its input electronic signal?

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Hi-Fi sound

21
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A unit of subjective loudness of pure tones?

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Phon

22
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The interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency?

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Octave

23
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A local area network that uses high-frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet;
uses ethernet (wireless ) protocol?

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Wi-fi

24
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3 major components of acoustics?

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Ambient noise, Reverberation, and the Signal to noise ratio

25
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Basically your ears’ response to the frequency of a sound?

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Pitch

26
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Refers to the quality of a persons voice?

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Tone of sound

27
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Is a physiological sensation. It depends mainly on sound pressure but also on the spectrum of the harmonics and the physical duration?

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Loudness

28
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Transmission of Sound?

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Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, also called compression waves.

29
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Is a wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave’s advance?

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Transverse wave

30
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Comes from the Latin word nausea, meaning seasickness?

A

Noise

31
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refers to any sound that is pleasant to the ear?

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Music

32
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Is the local pressure deviation from the ambient (average or equilibrium) atmospheric pressure, caused by a sound wave?

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Sound pressure or acoustic pressure

33
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Also known as barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth?

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Atmospheric pressure

34
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Is used to measure sound level, but it is also widely used in electronics, signals and communication?

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The decibel (dB)

35
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Is a diagram devised by?

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Harvey Fletcher Hudson and W.A. Munson

36
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when two separate sources of sound are perceived simultaneously, the perception of each is made more difficult by the presence of the other?

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Masking

37
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the exact mechanism which the binaural aspect of hearing detects direction is not entirely understood?

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Directivity

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