Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Centre for Educational Technology

End Semester Examination 2014 (Spring)
Subject: Audio System Engineering Code: ET60006
Time: 3:00 Hours Full Marks =100
PART-A
Answer all the questions (10x2=20)

1. A 100W amplifier has 64 dB gain. What should be the input signal power to drive the amplifier in
full power?

2. An earth quake wave was traveling through the earth and the intensity detected 100 Km from
source was 5.0x 106 W/m2. What is the intensity of the earth quake wave at a distance 400 km
from the source?

3. An earth quake wave passes across a boundary in rock where its velocity increases from 6km/s
to 8km/s if it strikes this boundary at 300 calculate the angle of refraction

4. If a loudspeaker mounted in the following manner. Find out the Directivity factor (Q) for each
cases
a) Mounted at centre of ceiling or wall surface
b) Mounted at intersection of any two wall

5. Prove that the velocity of sound does not depend on change of altitude if the temperature and
type of air is same.

6. If the ambient noise level in outdoor acoustic filled is 70dB and a sound source generate 110dB
at 2 meters. How far the sound will travel before it submerged with noise?

7. If an acoustic room has the dimension 12 m x 14 m x 6 m find out lowest 2 standing wave
frequencies?

8. If the intensity of a sound in air at 1 kHz is 12W/m2. Find out the value of root mean square
pressure? Where density of air is ρ0 =1.21 kg/m3 and sound velocity is c=350 m/s

9. During the testing, a microphone produced an open circuit voltage E0=0.008 V, at 100 dB sound
pressure level (SPL) find out the sensitivity (Sv) of the microphone.

10. A room has dimensions 12 m x 14 m x 6 m and average absorptivity of the surfaces is a = 0.2 If a
3x10-2 W average output acoustic source is placed in the center of the front wall find out the
value of critical distance

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 PART-B
Answer all the questions (5x16=80)

1. (a) Draw the schematic of the construction of a moving coil transducer (anti-reciprocal).
(b) Draw its equivalent electrical circuit. (c) Write five main properties of moving coil
(dynamic) microphone

2. (a) What is Pressure gradient (velocity) microphone? (b) Draw the directivity pattern of
a bidirectional pressure gradient microphone. (c) Show that the Pressure gradient
depend on frequency. (d) Give one example uses of Pressure gradient (velocity)
microphone.

3. An auditorium is observed to have a reverberation time of 2.0s. Its dimensions are

. (a) What acoustic power is required to produce a steady-state sound

pressure level of ? (b) What is the average absorptivity of the surfaces

in the auditorium? (c) If 400 people are present, each adding to its total
absorption, what is the new reverberation time? (d) What will be the new sound
pressure level produced by the sound source of part (a)? [where ρ0 = 1.21 kg/m3 and
c=343 m/s]

4. (a) What are the factors effects Acoustic Environment? (b) A room has dimensions 8 m x
16 m x 10 m and average absorptivity of the surfaces is a = 0.4. Is the volume of the
room is sufficient for large room acoustic for speech system? (b) Find out the total
number of reflection during RT60 (c) If two loudspeakers is placed in the corner of the
front wall and two side walls find out the %ALCONS. (d) Write your opinion regarding the
Speech intelligibility of the room.

Where

5. (a) Prove that when a microphone operates in an open-circuit condition (Rin > R0) the
overall SNR can improve by 3dB, compared to the situation when Rin=R0. (b) A
microphone is connected to an amplifier and the specification of microphone and
amplifier as in given below. If a talker produce 80 dB near the microphone find out the
signal to noise ratio at output of the amplifier at 30o C temperature

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