Fundamentals of General Linear Acoustics by Jacobsen, Finn, Juhl, Peter Moller -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright About the Authors Preface List of Symbols Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Acoustic Wave Motion

2.1 Fundamental Acoustic Concepts 2.2 The Wave Equation References

Chapter 3: Simple Sound Fields

3.1 Plane Waves 3.2 Sound Transmission Between Fluids 3.3 Simple Spherical Waves References

Chapter 4: Basic Acoustic Measurements

4.1 Introduction 4.2 Frequency Analysis 4.3 Levels and Decibels 4.4 Noise Measurement Techniques and Instrumentation References

Chapter 5: The Concept of Impedance

5.1 Mechanical Impedance 5.2 Acoustic Impedance 5.3 Specific Impedance, Wave Impedance and Characteristic Impedance References

Chapter 6: Sound Energy, Sound Power, Sound Intensity and Sound Absorption

6.1 Introduction 6.2 Conservation of Sound Energy 6.3 Active and Reactive Intensity 6.4 Measurement of Sound Intensity 6.5 Applications of Sound Intensity 6.6 Sound Absorption References

Chapter 7: Duct Acoustics

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Plane Waves in Ducts with Rigid Walls 7.3 Sound Transmission Through Coupled Pipes 7.4 Sound Propagation in Ducts with Mean Flow 7.5 Three-dimensional Waves in Ducts with Rigid Walls 7.6 The Green's Function in a Semi-infinite Duct 7.7 Sound Propagation in Ducts with Walls of Finite Impedance References

Chapter 8: Sound in Enclosures

8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Modal Theory of Sound in Enclosures 8.3 Statistical Room Acoustics 8.4 The Decay of Sound in a Lightly Damped Room 8.5 Applications of Reverberation Rooms References

Chapter 9: Sound Radiation and Scattering

9.1 Introduction 9.2 Point Sources 9.3 Cylindrical Waves 9.4 Spherical Waves 9.5 Plane Sources 9.6 The Kirchhoff-Helmholtz Integral Equation References

Appendix A: Complex Representation of Harmonic Functions of Time Appendix B: Signal Analysis and Processing

B.1 Introduction B.2 Classification of Signals B.3 Transient Signals B.4 Periodic Signals B.5 Random Signals B.6 Linear Systems B.7 Digital Signal Processing References

C.1 Cylindrical Bessel Functions C.2 Legendre Functions C.3 Spherical Bessel Functions C.4 Expansion Coefficients Reference

Appendix D: Fundamentals of Probability and Random Variables

D.1 Random Variables D.2 The Central Limit Theorem D.3 Chi and Chi-Square Statistics Reference

Bibliography Index