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ME 6760: Acoustics I
Offered Every Spring
| Credit Hours: |
3-0-3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Math 2403 or MATH 2413 or MATH 24X3 |
| Catalog Description: |
Fundamental principles governing the generation, propagation, reflection, and transmission of sound waves in fluids. Crosslisted with AE 6760. |
| Textbooks: |
Allan D. Pierce, Acoustics: Introduction to Physical Principles and Applications, 1st Edition, Springer-Verlag, 1989 (an Acoustical Society publication). |
| Instructors: |
Anyone in the Acoustics group, Kenneth Cunefare, Jacek Jarzynski |
| Audience: |
Graduate students in Engineering or Physics interested in theoretical acoustics. |
| Goals: |
The goal of this course is to expose students to an in-depth understanding of the fundamental principles governing the generation, propagation, reflection, and transmission of sound waves in fluids. |
| Topics: |
- Fundamentals
- Governing equations
- Sound speed
- Energy, intensity
- Coherent and incoherent sound sources
- Acoustic power
- Plane, spherical sound waves
- Spectral analysis, decibels, frequency weighting
- Reflection and Transmission of sound waves
- Acoustic impedance
- reflection/transmission between two fluids
- reflection at an impedance boundary
- standing wave tube
- radiation from a vibrating infinite plate
- transmission through a wall, a layer
- Ideal sources
- pulsating sphere, translating sphere
- monopoles, dipoles, quadrupoles
- multipole expansions, spherical harmonics
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