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09/20/2010

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What is a vibration?
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mechanical oscillations about an equilibrium point
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what is a chaldni plate?
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A device that allows you to see sound waves
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What is mass?
Definition
amount of molecules that form an object; quantity of matter present; measured in grams
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What is weight?
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Force exerted on supporting surface; dependent on mass and gravitational force; force and weight are measured in Newtons
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What is pressure?
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Force applied to a given surface; measured in Pascal
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What is a wave?
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a disturbance/variation that travels through a medium by transfering energy progressivly from point to point
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What are sound waves?
Definition
variations in air pressure
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Sound waves transport                 

not                  .


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energy, matter
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Air is able to transmit sound because it has                and               .
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mass, elasticity
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what is elasticity?
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the ability to resist changes in shape or volume.
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What is inertia? (Newton's 1st Law)
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tendency of a body in motion to remain in motion until acted upon by an outside force.
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what is Newton's 3rd law?
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with every force there is an equal and opposite force
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what is an area of high density called?

 

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Compression
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What is an area of low density called?
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Rarefaction
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Wave propagation is due to forces from...
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compression and rarefaction
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sound waves are               waves
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longitudinal
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What are transverse waves?
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Each particle moves up and down with exactly the same frequency as the other particles.
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What are longitudinal waves?
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each particle moves back and forth with exactly the same frequency as the other particles
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impulse wave
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[image]
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complex wave
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[image]
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sine wave
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What is a cycle?
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movement from resting place, through resting place, then back to resting place, easily marked by peaks and troughs, one cycle equals one period
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what is a wavelength?
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the distance between two corresponding points on a wave, a spatial not time measurement
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what is phase?
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a particular point in the cycle of a waveform, measured as an angle in degrees.
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formula to convert milliseconds to seconds
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milliseconds/1000
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fomula to convert seconds to milliseconds
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milliseconds=seconds*1000
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What is pitch?
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a subjective percept of sound along a qualitative low to high scale
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what are the two formulas for frequency?
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f=1/t and t=1/f
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high frequency = ______ pitch
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high
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humans can hear frequency from _______ to _______ Hz but hear best from _________ to ___________ Hz.
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20, 20,000, 125, 5000
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The area of frequency and loudness for speech is known as ___________
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the speech banana
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What is energy?
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a property or quantity assignable to matter or waves as a consequence of its state
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What is power?
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rate at which energy is converted, or energy per time unit
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What is intensity?
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power per unit area
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What is amplitude?
Definition
magnitude of displacement of a wave
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What is damping?
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rate of reduction of amplitude (rate at which energy is absorbed)
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What is loudness?
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A subjective auditory property that allows someone to put a lable on a sound from soft to loud.
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Doubling dB IL increases the number by...
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3
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doubling a sounds pressure in dB SPL increases it by...
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6
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what unit uses a logrithm and is nonlinear?
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Decibel
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T or F. 0dB equals no sound
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F
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What is constructive interference?
Definition
adding waves causes amplitude to increase
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What is destructive interference?
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adding of waves causes the amplitude to decrease
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What is the principle of superposition?
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shape of a total wave formed is obtained via by combining the contributions of 2 individual waves.
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What is a harmonic relation?
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frequencies of a periodic wave must be an integer of the lowest number
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How do you find the 4th harmonic?
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Fsub0 * 4
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What are the 3 subsystems in speech physiology?
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Respitory, phonatory, articulatory
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What is the ave. pressure used for speech?
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6-10cm h20
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