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PHSCS
561

Fundamentals of Acoustics

Hours

3.0 Credit, 3 Lecture, 0 Lab

Semester

Fall
Vibrating systems, elastic media, mechanical energy, and radiation. Sound generation, transmission, reflection, and reception.

Vibrations

Understand physical phenomena underlying vibrations of solids, including damping, driven systems, coupled oscillators, impedance, boundary conditions, elasticity, and longitudinal, transverse, and torsional waves.  Apply physical models to quantify vibrations in strings, rods, membranes, beams, plates.

Sound

Understand physical phenomena underlying sound propagation including energy, intensity, plane waves, standing waves/normal modes, Helmholtz resonators, reflection, transmission, refraction, and absorption. Apply the acoustic wave equation in one, two, and three dimensional systems.

Communication

Communicate effectively with others in the class as you work together to learn the material and solve problems.  Practice respect and professionalism in your communications both oral and written as you work in groups on the assignments.