Acoustics

Acoustics

Of or pertaining to the study of mechanical waves in all stages of matter including sounds, vibration, ultrasounds, and infrasound.

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passive absorber

Science; Acoustics

A sound absorber that dissipates sound energy as heat.

integrating averaging sound level meter

Science; Acoustics

A sound level meter that accumulates the total sound exposure over a measurement period and calculates the energy or Leq - equivalent sound level

monaural sound recording

Science; Acoustics

A sound recording in which only one channel is used. If two channels (stereo or binaural sound) are available but only one channel is chosen, then the left channel is usually chosen by default.

A sound source composed of many point sources in a defined line, such as a train, flow of traffic on a motorway, or constant aircraft take-offs and landings. Sound levels measured from line sources ...

impulse

Science; Acoustics

A sound with a very short duration.

omni-directional source

Science; Acoustics

A source that emits equal amounts of energy in all directions and generates spherical waves.

sound velocity

Science; Acoustics

Sound velocity is usually taken to mean the speed of Sound should not be confused with sound particle velocity, which is the velocity of the individual particles.