Page 8 - The Master Handbook Of Acoustics
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CONTENTS
Epigraph xxi
Introduction xxiii
Chapter 1 Fundamentals of Sound 1
The Simple Sinusoid 2
Sine-Wave Language 3
Propagation of sound 5
The dance of the particles 5
How a sound wave is propagated 7
Sound in free space 9
Wavelength and Frequency 10
Complex Waves 12
Harmonics 12
Phase 12
Partials 15
Octaves 15
The concept of spectrum 17
Electrical, Mechanical, and Acoustical Analogs 20
Chapter 2 Sound Levels and the Decibel 23
Ratios vs. Differences 23
Handling numbers 25
Logarithms 26
Decibels 26
Reference Levels 28
Logarithmic and Exponential Forms Compared 30
Acoustic Power 31
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