Acoustics Sound category: 434 books
by Philip Newell
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Recording Studio Design, Fourth Edition explains the key principles of successful studio design and construction using straightforward language and the use of practical examples appreciated by readers of previous editions. Updated to reflect new industry standards, this fourth edition addresses improvements...
by Finn B. Jensen, William A. Kuperman, Michael B. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Senior level/graduate level text/reference presenting state-of-the- art numerical techniques to solve the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media. Numerical models have become standard research tools in acoustic laboratories, and thus computational acoustics is becoming an increasingly important...
Acoustics-A Textbook for Engineers and Physicists
Volume I: Fundamentals
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook systematically addresses all core topics in physical and engineering acoustics. Written by a well-known textbook author with 39 years of experience performing research, teaching, and mentoring in the field, it is specially designed to provide maximum...
Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control
Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book presents the proceedings of the Symposium on Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control (FSSIC), (held in Tokyo on Aug. 21-24, 2017), which largely focused on advances in the theory, experiments on, and numerical simulation of turbulence in the contexts of flow-induced vibration, noise...
by Erik Gregersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Audio and visual cues facilitate some of our most powerful sensory experiences and embed themselves deeply into our memories and subconscious. Sound and light waves interact with our ears and eyes—our biological interpreters—creating a textural experience and relationship with the world around...
How Music Works
The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS,...
by Jens Ahrens
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book puts the focus on serving human listeners in the sound field synthesis although the approach can be also exploited in other applications such as underwater acoustics or ultrasonics. The author derives a fundamental formulation based on standard integral equations and the single-layer potential...
by Hermann Helmholtz
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
On the Sensations of Tone is one of the world's greatest scientific classics. It bridges the gap between the natural sciences and music theory and, nearly a century after its first publication, it is still a standard text for the study of physiological acoustics — the scientific basis of musical...
by Yoshiharu Soeta, Yoichi Ando
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This book deals with methods of measurement and evaluation of environmental noise based on an auditory neural and brain-oriented model. The model consists of the autocorrelation function (ACF) and the interaural cross-correlation function (IACF) mechanisms for signals arriving at the two ear entrances....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The book presents a state-of-art overview of numerical schemes efficiently solving the acoustic conservation equations (unknowns are acoustic pressure and particle velocity) and the acoustic wave equation (pressure of acoustic potential formulation). Thereby, the different equations model both vibrational-...
Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures—AVMS-2017
Proceedings of the 14th AVMS Conference, Timisoara, Romania, May 25–26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book is a collection of papers presented at Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures 2017 – AVMS 2017 – highlighting the current trends and state-of-the-art developments in the field. It covers a broad range of topics, such as noise and vibration control, noise and vibration generation...
Acoustics and the Performance of Music
Manual for Acousticians, Audio Engineers, Musicians, Architects and Musical Instrument Makers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2009
This classic reference on musical acoustics and performance practice begins with a brief introduction to the fundamentals of acoustics and the generation of musical sounds. It then discusses the particulars of the sounds made by all the standard instruments in a modern orchestra as well as the human...
Acoustics-A Textbook for Engineers and Physicists
Volume II: Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This textbook provides graduate and advanced undergraduate students with a comprehensive introduction to the application of basic principles and concepts for physical and engineering acoustics. Many of the chapters are independent, and all build from introductory to more sophisticated material. Written...
Acoustics
Basic Physics, Theory, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1998
The book is devoted to the very basis of acoustics and vibro-acoustics. The physics of the phenomena, the analytical methods and the modern numerical techniques are presented in a concise form. Many examples illustrate the fundamental problems and predictions (analytic or numerical) and are often...