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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backward curve integration

Science; Acoustics

Method for calculating reverberation time from the impulse noise decay curve. Also known as the Schroeder method.

schroeder

Science; Acoustics

Method for calculating the reverberation time from the impulse noise decay curve. 'Backward curve' algorithm developed by Manfred Schroeder at Bell Labs in the sixties.

pistonphone

Science; Acoustics

Microphone calibrator generating a known sound pressure level, typically at a certain reference frequency. They are highly accurate, typically 0.1 dB and as the name suggests the sound level is ...

polar pattern or response

Science; Acoustics

Microphones respond to sound coming from different directions with varying degrees of sensitivity. A plot or graph of this response is called a polar pattern (sometimes polar response curve). ...

critical damping

Science; Acoustics

Minimum damping that will allow a displaced system to return to its initial state without oscillation.

maximum length sequence

Science; Acoustics

MLS - is basically a pseudo-random sequence of pulses. MLS measurements are quite standard in many different application fields, one of them acoustics.