Acoustics

Fundamentals
RAYMUND M. LOZADA PECE
Example 1.

A 20 Khz tone is how many octaves higher than a 250

Hz tone?
Example 2.
How many decades is 50 Khz above 10 Hz?
Example 3
Given the following data:

Loudness (sone)                                     Loudness level (phon)

           3.2                                                              55
           5.4                                                              62
           5.9                                                              63
           4.7                                                              60

Compute for:
               A) total loudness
               B) total loudness level
Tonights activity
(to be submitted at 8:45pm)
Answer the Following:
◦ 1. convert 40 phon to sone

◦ 2. 30 phon + 30 phon = ______ phon

◦ 3. Find the frequency of the sound under test in decade, if the frequency of the sound under
test in octave is 200 Hz. The interval in both octave and decade was both equal to 2, and the
reference frequency was also the same.
Sound power and sound power level
Example.
Determine the total PWL of 3 motors with a radiated acoustic power of 25mW, 40mW and
85mW, respectively.
Sound Intensity (I) and Sound Intensity
Level (SIL)
Example.
◦ You are at a party and talking with a group of people. They all produce sound levels of the same
magnitude at your position. The combine when all four talks at once is 70 dB.
◦ A) What is the sound level from 1 person?
◦ B) What is the sound intensity from 1 person?
◦ C) If two additional persons joined the conversation with an individual level of 68dB each, compute for the new
combined  intensity level?
Sound Pressure (P) and Sound Pressure
Level (SPL)
Example

◦ Calculate the Effective SPL for a telephone ring, an operating vacuum cleaner, and an air
    conditioner with an individual SPL of 82dB, 76dB and 80dB respectively relative to 20µPa.
   Tonight's activity
  

(to be submitted at 8:45pm)

ANSWER THE FF:
1. Two identical balloons burst simultaneously, producing a sound with intensity level of 100dB.What
would be the intensity level have been if only one balloon had burst?
2. What would be the SIL of a 23dB sound after being amplified
◦ A) 10 thousand times
◦ B) a million times
3. A small but noisy printer produces an acoustic intensity of 560ùW/sqm at a point 5 meters away.
Approximately what value will the dB meter read 20 meters from the printer.
4. The sound power level of a certain jet plane flying at a height of 1 km is 160dB. Find the maximum
sound pressure level on the ground directly below the flight path assuming that the aircraft radiates
equally in all directions.