Sound is a automated beachcomber that is an cadence of burden transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies aural the ambit of audition and of a akin abundantly able to be heard, or the awareness angry in organs of audition by such vibrations.1
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Propagation of sound
Sound is a arrangement of after-effects of burden that propagates through compressible media such as air or water. (Sound can bear through debris as well, but there are added modes of propagation). During propagation, after-effects can be reflected, refracted, or attenuated by the medium.2
The behavior of complete advancement is about afflicted by three things:
A accord amid body and pressure. This relationship, afflicted by temperature, determines the acceleration of complete aural the medium.
The advancement is aswell afflicted by the motion of the average itself. For example, complete affective through wind. Independent of the motion of complete through the medium, if the average is moving, the complete is added transported.
The bendability of the average aswell affects the motion of complete waves. It determines the amount at which complete is attenuated. For abounding media, such as air or water, abrasion due to bendability is negligible.
When complete is affective through a average that does not accept connected concrete properties, it may be refracted (either broadcast or focused).2
The behavior of complete advancement is about afflicted by three things:
A accord amid body and pressure. This relationship, afflicted by temperature, determines the acceleration of complete aural the medium.
The advancement is aswell afflicted by the motion of the average itself. For example, complete affective through wind. Independent of the motion of complete through the medium, if the average is moving, the complete is added transported.
The bendability of the average aswell affects the motion of complete waves. It determines the amount at which complete is attenuated. For abounding media, such as air or water, abrasion due to bendability is negligible.
When complete is affective through a average that does not accept connected concrete properties, it may be refracted (either broadcast or focused).2
Perception of sound
The acumen of complete in any animal is bound to a assertive ambit of frequencies. For humans, audition is commonly bound to frequencies amid about 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz (20 kHz)3, although these banned are not definite. The high absolute about decreases with age. Other breed accept a altered ambit of hearing. For example, dogs can apperceive accordance college than 20 kHz, but are deafened to annihilation beneath 40 Hz. As a arresting perceived by one of the above senses, complete is acclimated by abounding breed for audition danger, navigation, predation, and communication. Earth's atmosphere, water, and around any concrete phenomenon, such as fire, rain, wind, surf, or earthquake, produces (and is characterized by) its different sounds. Abounding species, such as frogs, birds, abyssal and earthbound mammals, accept aswell developed appropriate organs to aftermath sound. In some species, these aftermath song and speech. Furthermore, bodies accept developed ability and technology (such as music, blast and radio) that allows them to generate, record, transmit, and advertisement sound. The accurate abstraction of animal complete acumen is accepted as psychoacoustics.
Physics of sound
The automated accordance that can be interpreted as complete are able to biking through all forms of matter: gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas. The amount that supports the complete is alleged the medium. Complete cannot biking through a vacuum.
Longitudinal and axle waves
Sinusoidal after-effects of assorted frequencies; the basal after-effects accept college frequencies than those above. The accumbent arbor represents time.
Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, aswell alleged compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal after-effects and axle waves. Longitudinal complete after-effects are after-effects of alternating burden deviations from the calm pressure, causing bounded regions of compression and rarefaction, while axle after-effects (in solids) are after-effects of alternating microburst accent at appropriate bend to the administration of propagation.
Matter in the average is periodically displaced by a complete wave, and appropriately oscillates. The activity agitated by the complete beachcomber converts aback and alternating amid the abeyant activity of the added compression (in case of longitudinal waves) or crabbed displacement ache (in case of axle waves) of the amount and the active activity of the oscillations of the medium.
Sound beachcomber backdrop and characteristics
Sound after-effects are generally simplified to a description in agreement of sinusoidal even waves, which are characterized by these all-encompassing properties:
Frequency, or its inverse, the period
Wavelength
Wavenumber
Amplitude
Complete pressure
Complete intensity
Acceleration of sound
Direction
Sometimes acceleration and administration are accumulated as a acceleration vector; wavenumber and administration are accumulated as a beachcomber vector.
Transverse waves, aswell accepted as microburst waves, accept the added property, polarization, and are not a appropriate of complete waves.
Speed of sound
U.S. Navy F/A-18 breaking the complete barrier. The white aura is formed by abridged baptize aerosol anticipation to aftereffect from a bead in air burden about the aircraft (see Prandtl-Glauert Singularity).45
Main article: Acceleration of sound
The acceleration of complete depends on the average the after-effects canyon through, and is a axiological acreage of the material. In general, the acceleration of complete is proportional to the aboveboard basis of the arrangement of the adaptable modulus (stiffness) of the average to its density. Those concrete backdrop and the acceleration of complete change with ambient conditions. For example, the acceleration of complete in gases depends on temperature. In 20 °C (68 °F) air at the sea level, the acceleration of complete is about 343 m/s (1,230 km/h; 767 mph) appliance the blueprint "v = (331 + 0.6 T) m/s". In beginning water, aswell at 20 °C, the acceleration of complete is about 1,482 m/s (5,335 km/h; 3,315 mph). In steel, the acceleration of complete is about 5,960 m/s (21,460 km/h; 13,330 mph).6 The acceleration of complete is aswell hardly acute (a second-order anharmonic effect) to the complete amplitude, which agency that there are nonlinear advancement effects, such as the assembly of accord and alloyed tones not present in the aboriginal complete (see parametric array).
Acoustics
Main article: Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the abstraction of all automated after-effects in gases, liquids, and debris including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the acreage of acoustics is an acoustician while anyone alive in the acreage of acoustics technology may be alleged an acoustical or audio engineer. The appliance of acoustics can be apparent in about all aspects of avant-garde association with the a lot of accessible getting the audio and babble ascendancy industries.
Noise
Main article: Noise
Noise is a appellation generally acclimated to accredit to an exceptionable sound. In science and engineering, babble is an abominable basic that obscures a capital signal.
Longitudinal and axle waves
Sinusoidal after-effects of assorted frequencies; the basal after-effects accept college frequencies than those above. The accumbent arbor represents time.
Sound is transmitted through gases, plasma, and liquids as longitudinal waves, aswell alleged compression waves. Through solids, however, it can be transmitted as both longitudinal after-effects and axle waves. Longitudinal complete after-effects are after-effects of alternating burden deviations from the calm pressure, causing bounded regions of compression and rarefaction, while axle after-effects (in solids) are after-effects of alternating microburst accent at appropriate bend to the administration of propagation.
Matter in the average is periodically displaced by a complete wave, and appropriately oscillates. The activity agitated by the complete beachcomber converts aback and alternating amid the abeyant activity of the added compression (in case of longitudinal waves) or crabbed displacement ache (in case of axle waves) of the amount and the active activity of the oscillations of the medium.
Sound beachcomber backdrop and characteristics
Sound after-effects are generally simplified to a description in agreement of sinusoidal even waves, which are characterized by these all-encompassing properties:
Frequency, or its inverse, the period
Wavelength
Wavenumber
Amplitude
Complete pressure
Complete intensity
Acceleration of sound
Direction
Sometimes acceleration and administration are accumulated as a acceleration vector; wavenumber and administration are accumulated as a beachcomber vector.
Transverse waves, aswell accepted as microburst waves, accept the added property, polarization, and are not a appropriate of complete waves.
Speed of sound
U.S. Navy F/A-18 breaking the complete barrier. The white aura is formed by abridged baptize aerosol anticipation to aftereffect from a bead in air burden about the aircraft (see Prandtl-Glauert Singularity).45
Main article: Acceleration of sound
The acceleration of complete depends on the average the after-effects canyon through, and is a axiological acreage of the material. In general, the acceleration of complete is proportional to the aboveboard basis of the arrangement of the adaptable modulus (stiffness) of the average to its density. Those concrete backdrop and the acceleration of complete change with ambient conditions. For example, the acceleration of complete in gases depends on temperature. In 20 °C (68 °F) air at the sea level, the acceleration of complete is about 343 m/s (1,230 km/h; 767 mph) appliance the blueprint "v = (331 + 0.6 T) m/s". In beginning water, aswell at 20 °C, the acceleration of complete is about 1,482 m/s (5,335 km/h; 3,315 mph). In steel, the acceleration of complete is about 5,960 m/s (21,460 km/h; 13,330 mph).6 The acceleration of complete is aswell hardly acute (a second-order anharmonic effect) to the complete amplitude, which agency that there are nonlinear advancement effects, such as the assembly of accord and alloyed tones not present in the aboriginal complete (see parametric array).
Acoustics
Main article: Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the abstraction of all automated after-effects in gases, liquids, and debris including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the acreage of acoustics is an acoustician while anyone alive in the acreage of acoustics technology may be alleged an acoustical or audio engineer. The appliance of acoustics can be apparent in about all aspects of avant-garde association with the a lot of accessible getting the audio and babble ascendancy industries.
Noise
Main article: Noise
Noise is a appellation generally acclimated to accredit to an exceptionable sound. In science and engineering, babble is an abominable basic that obscures a capital signal.
Sound pressure level
Sound burden is the difference, in a accustomed medium, amid boilerplate bounded burden and the burden in the complete wave. A aboveboard of this aberration (i.e., a aboveboard of the aberration from the calm pressure) is usually averaged over time and/or space, and a aboveboard basis of this boilerplate provides a basis beggarly aboveboard (RMS) value. For example, 1 Pa RMS complete burden (94 dBSPL) in atmospheric air implies that the absolute burden in the complete beachcomber oscillates amid (1 atm -\sqrt{2} Pa) and (1 atm +\sqrt{2} Pa), that is amid 101323.6 and 101326.4 Pa. Such a tiny (relative to atmospheric) aberration in air burden at an audio abundance is perceived as a aural sound, and can could cause audition damage, according to the table below.
As the animal ear can ascertain sounds with a advanced ambit of amplitudes, complete burden is generally abstinent as a akin on a logarithmic decibel scale. The complete burden akin (SPL) or Lp is authentic as
L_\mathrm{p}=10\, \log_{10}\left(\frac{{p}^2}{{p_\mathrm{ref}}^2}\right) =20\, \log_{10}\left(\frac{p}{p_\mathrm{ref}}\right)\mbox{ dB}\,
area p is the root-mean-square complete burden and pref is a advertence complete pressure. Commonly acclimated advertence complete pressures, authentic in the accepted ANSI S1.1-1994, are 20 µPa in air and 1 µPa in water. Without a authentic advertence complete pressure, a amount bidding in decibels cannot represent a complete burden level.
Since the animal ear does not accept a collapsed ashen response, complete pressures are generally abundance abounding so that the abstinent akin matches perceived levels added closely. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has authentic several weighting schemes. A-weighting attempts to bout the acknowledgment of the animal ear to babble and A-weighted complete burden levels are labeled dBA. C-weighting is acclimated to admeasurement aiguille levels.
As the animal ear can ascertain sounds with a advanced ambit of amplitudes, complete burden is generally abstinent as a akin on a logarithmic decibel scale. The complete burden akin (SPL) or Lp is authentic as
L_\mathrm{p}=10\, \log_{10}\left(\frac{{p}^2}{{p_\mathrm{ref}}^2}\right) =20\, \log_{10}\left(\frac{p}{p_\mathrm{ref}}\right)\mbox{ dB}\,
area p is the root-mean-square complete burden and pref is a advertence complete pressure. Commonly acclimated advertence complete pressures, authentic in the accepted ANSI S1.1-1994, are 20 µPa in air and 1 µPa in water. Without a authentic advertence complete pressure, a amount bidding in decibels cannot represent a complete burden level.
Since the animal ear does not accept a collapsed ashen response, complete pressures are generally abundance abounding so that the abstinent akin matches perceived levels added closely. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has authentic several weighting schemes. A-weighting attempts to bout the acknowledgment of the animal ear to babble and A-weighted complete burden levels are labeled dBA. C-weighting is acclimated to admeasurement aiguille levels.
Equipment for dealing with sound
Equipment for breeding or application complete includes agreeable instruments, audition aids, alarm systems and complete reproduction and broadcasting equipment. Many of these use electro-acoustic transducers such as microphones and loudspeakers.
Sound measurement
Decibel, Sone, mel, Phon, Hertz
Complete burden level, Complete pressure
Particle velocity, Acoustic velocity
Particle displacement, Particle amplitude, Particle acceleration
Complete power, Acoustic power, Complete ability level
Complete activity flux
Complete intensity, Acoustic intensity, Complete acuteness level
Acoustic impedance, Complete impedance, Characteristic impedance
Speed of sound, Amplitude
Complete burden level, Complete pressure
Particle velocity, Acoustic velocity
Particle displacement, Particle amplitude, Particle acceleration
Complete power, Acoustic power, Complete ability level
Complete activity flux
Complete intensity, Acoustic intensity, Complete acuteness level
Acoustic impedance, Complete impedance, Characteristic impedance
Speed of sound, Amplitude
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