reference acoustic pressure
1pressure — 1. A stress or force acting in any direction against resistance. 2. (P, frequently followed by a subscript indicating location)In physics and physiology, the force per unit area exerted by a gas or liquid against the walls of its container or… …
2Sound pressure — Sound measurements Sound pressure p, SPL Particle velocity v, SVL Particle displacement ξ Sound intensity I, SIL Sound power Pac Sound power level SWL Sound energy Sound energy d …
3Under Pressure — This article refers to the Queen David Bowie song. For other uses of the name, see Under Pressure (disambiguation) Infobox Single Name =Under Pressure Cover size = Border = Caption = Artist =Queen and David Bowie Album =Hot Space B side = Soul… …
4sound — sound1 soundable, adj. /sownd/, n. 1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium. 2. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a… …
5Sound — /sownd/, n. The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 mi. (140 km) long; 3 30 mi. (5 48 km) wide. Swedish and Danish, Oresund. * * * I Mechanical disturbance that propagates as a longitudinal wave… …
6Sound — This article is about audible acoustic waves. For other uses, see Sound (disambiguation). In a drum sound is produ …
7Underwater acoustics — The field of underwater acoustics is closely related to a number of other fields of acoustic study, including sonar, transduction, acoustic signal processing, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, and physical acoustics.HistoryUnderwater sound… …
8Sound level meter — Type 1 Sound Level Meter (Shown: Svantek 979) Sound level meters measure sound pressure level and are commonly used in noise pollution studies for the quantification of almost any noise, but especially for industrial, environmental and aircraft… …
9Computational Aeroacoustics — While the discipline of Aeroacoustics is definitely dated back to the first publication of Sir James Lighthill[1][2] in the early 1950s, the origin of Computational Aeroacoustics can only very likely be dated back to the middle of the 1980s.… …
10Sound intensity — The sound intensity, I , (acoustic intensity) is defined as the sound power Pac per unit area A . The usual context is the noise measurement of sound intensity in the air at a listener s location. For instantaneous acoustic pressure p inst( t )… …
