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Acoustics Flashcards

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Sound Intensity

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  • defined as the sound of power per unit area
  • basic units are watts/m or watts/cm2. Many sound intensity measurements are made relative to a standard threshold of hearing intensity Io.
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Threshold of hearing intensity Io

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  • the maximum sound level of pure tone that an average ear with normal hearing can hear in a noiseless environment.
  • I0=10^-12(watt/m^2) for frequency of 1000 Hz
  • measurement of absolute hearing threshold provides some basic information about our auditory system
  • Pure tone audiometry (PTA) is the key hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, enabling determination of the degree, type and configuration of a hearing loss
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Mechanical Wave

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  • are a local oscillation of material
  • only the energy propagates; the oscillating material does not move far from its initial equilibrium position
  • transport energy and not material
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Sound level L

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  • The decibel (dB) is commonly used in acoustics to quantify sound levels relative to some 0 dB reference.
  • The reference level is typically set at the threshold of perception of an average human and there are common comparisons used to illustrate different levels of sound pressure
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Sound

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  • is the vibration of matter, as perceived by the sense of hearing
  • physically, sound is vibrational mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a wave
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Sound waves are characterized by the generic properties of waves, which are:

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  1. frequency
  2. wavelength
  3. period
  4. amplitude
  5. intensity
  6. speed (propagation speed)
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Frequency

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  • is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time
  • also referred to as Temporal Frequency
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Period

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  • is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event
  • is the reciprocal of the frequency
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Infrasound

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< 16 Hz

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Audible Sound

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  • 16 Hz- 20 kHz (20000 Hz)
  • for humans, hearing is limited to frequencies between about 16Hz- 20000 Hz, with the upper limit generally decreasing with age
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Ultrasound

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> 20 kHz

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Wavelength

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  • is the distance between repeating units of a propagating wave of a given frequency
  • is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda: λ
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Sound level formula

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  • L= 10log I/Io(dB)
  • I - sound intensity
  • Io - sound threshold
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Ear Diagram

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3 parts of Ear

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  • The sense organ that detects sound is EAR which has 3 parts
    • Outer ear
    • Middle ear
    • Inner ear
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Wave

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Outer ear

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  • the outer ear is the most external portion of the ear
  • the outer ear includes the pinna (also called auricle), the ear canal and the very most superficial layer of the ear drum(also called the tympanic membrane)
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Amplitude

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  • is the magnitude of change in the oscillating variable, with each oscillation within an oscillating system
  • maximum value of intensity
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Speed of Sound

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  • describes how much distance such a wave travels in a certain amount of time
  • in dry air with a temp. of 21 ºC (70 ºF) the speed of sound is 344m/s (1230km/h, or 770mph, or 1130 ft/s)
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Middle ear

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  • The middle ear, an air filled cavity behind the ear drum(tympanic membrane), includes the three ear bones r ossciles: the malleus(or hammer), incus (or anvil) and stapes (or stirupp)
  • the opening of the Eustachian tube is also within the middle ear
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Inner ear

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  • The inner ear includes the organ of hearing (the cochlea)
  • its core component is the Organ of Corti, the sensory organ of hearing, which is distributed along the paritition seperating fluid chambers in the coiled tapered tube of the cochlea
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Outer Ear: Function

Middle Ear: Function

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  • The outer ear collects sound waves and channels them down to the ear canal, where they cause the ear drum to vibrate
  • This, in turn, causes the middle ear bones to move, increasing and amplifying the vibrations and transmitting them into the inner ear, (the cochlea)
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Material Speed

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Most Important one from picture

Soft Tissue: 1540 m/s

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Image of Cochlea

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Audiogram indicating normal hearing

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Sound scale diagram

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Inner Ear: Function

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  • The inner ear resembles a snail shell containing fluid. The vibrations cause the fluid to move, setting tiny hearing nerves, (hair cells), in motion.
  • Then, an electrical signal is sent along the auditory nerve which the brain translates into the sounds we hear.
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Diagram for middle ear

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Hearing Loss: Two Types

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  • There are many causes of hearing loss. But it can be divided into two basic types:
    • Conductive Hearing Loss
    • Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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Conductive Hearing Loss

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  • Caused by anything that interferes with the transmission of sound from the outer to inner ear
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Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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  • Caused by damage to the pathway that sound impluses take from the hair cells of the inner ear to the auditory nerve and the brain
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What is hearing loss measured in, and what is considered normal hearing?

What are the thresholds of the mild to severe hearing loss?

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  • Hearing loss is measured in decibels, or dBHL.
  • Normal hearing is a range of sound frequencies from 0-20dB for a person
  • Thresholds from mild to severe hearing loss:
    • Mild: 25-39dBHL
    • Moderate: 40-69dBHL
    • Severe: 70-94dBHL
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Audiogram Diagram

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34
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Sounds used for Echolocation by animals:

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  • Some Birds:
    • 4-7 kHz
  • Shrews:
    • 20-64 kHz
  • Bats:
    • 25-210 kHz
  • Dolphins:
    • up to 280 kHz
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Production of Ultrasound:

Piezoelectric Crystal Image

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Production of Ultrasound:

How does it work?

What is a transducer?

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  • the ultrasound is produced through the conversion of electrical into mechanical energy and is detected by the reverse process by converting mechanical into electrical energy
  • a transducer is a device that is both a transmitter and reciever of the ultrasound signal and it serves a dual role in pulse echo imaging
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Longitudinal Waveform

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  • the ultrasound beam propogates as a longitudinal waveform from the transducer face into the medium
    • near field (for 1.5 cm diameter crystal element at 3.5 MHz the near field extends to 12.5 cm)
    • far field
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Interaction of Ultrasound with Matter

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  • reflection
  • refraction
  • attenuation

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