Springer Handbook of Acoustics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rossing, Thomas D (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Animal physiology.; Acoustics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Engineering.; Animal Physiology.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Engineering, general.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience, and others. The Springer Handbook of Acoustics is an unparalleled modern ha...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Manfred R. Schroeder
• Introduction to acoustics
• History of acoustics
• General linear acoustics
• Sound propagation in the atmosphere
• Underwater acoustics
• Physical acoustics
• Thermoacoustics
• Nonlinear acoustics
• Performance and assembly hall acoustics
• Concert hall acoustics - Subjective preference theory
• Building acoustics
• Physiological acoustics
• Psychoacoustics
• Acoustic signal processing
• Musical acoustics
• Speech and singing
• Computer music
• Audio and electroacoustics
• Animal bioacoustics
• Cetacean acoustics
• Medical ultrasound
• Structural acoustics and vibration
• Noise
• Microphones and their calibration
• Sound intensity
• Acoustic holography
• Optical methods for acoustics and vibration
• Modal analysis
• About the Authors
• Subject Index.