Acoustics (Schaum's Outline)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 224 pages
• Published by: Mcgraw-Hill January 1971
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0070563284
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0070563285
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Weighs: 13.6 ounces

Reader Reviews
If you are an engineering or physics student and you would like an inexpensive guide to acoustics with plenty of worked examples and solved problems, this little book is for you. The title page doesn't say so, but it is actually entitled "Schaum's Outline on the Theory and Problems of Acoustics", just so that you know the format. I bought this guide back in 1980 when work required that I obtain a computational knowledge of acoustics that was deeper than what I had acquired in college. All of the basic theory is there, and by going through the solved problems and then working the exercises at the end of each chapter I became proficient in the science of acoustics without the need of any other expensive books. There are plenty of diagrams, and the author even relates topics to electric circuits when possible, making this guide especially valuable to engineers with a basic knowledge of electric circuits. It is a shame it is out of print, so if you ever see a used copy for sale you might want to grab it. This guide is for engineers, so a knowledge of physics, calculus, and differential equations is presumed. This book will probably be incomprehensible to recording/studio professionals. The table of contents is as follows: 1. Vibrations and Waves - Vibrations, energy of vibrations, vibration of strings, longitudinal vibration of bars, vibration of membranes, vibration of circular plates. 2. Plane Acoustic Waves - Wave Equation, wave elements, speed of sound, acoustic intensity, sound energy density, specific acoustic impedence, sound measurements, resonance of air columns, doppler effect. 3. Spherical Acoustic Waves - Wave equation, wave elements, acoustic intensity and energy density, specific acoustic impedence, radiation of sound, source strength, radiation impedence. 4. Transmission of Sound - Transmission through two media, transmission through 3 media, reflection of sound, refraction of sound, diffraction of sound, scattering of sound, interference, filtration of sound, absorption of sound. 5. Loudspeaker and Microphone - Electroacoustical energy, loudspeakers, enclosures, horns, microphones, pressure-operated microphones, pressure gradient microphones, sensitivity, directivity, directional efficiency, resonance, calibration 6. Sound and Hearing - Noise, physiological and psychological effects of noise, loudness, noise analysis, pitch and timbre, music, speech, the human voice, the human ear. 7. Architectural acoustics - reverberation, noise insulation and reduction, sound absorption, sound distribution, room acoustics. 8. Underwater Acoustics - underwater sound, refraction, reverberation, ambient noise, underwater transducers, cavitation. 9. Ultrasonics - Wave types, ultrasonic transducers, piezoelectric transducers, magnetostrictive transducers, electromagnetic transducers, absorption, applications.