SP436 Acoustics

Course Policy

Course Standing Orders - SP436 - Fall 2010.doc

Semester Syllabus

SP436Syllabus2010.xls

Textbook:  Kinsler, Frey, Coppens, and Sanders,  Fundamentals of Acoustics, 4th Ed., Wiley, 2000.

Notes I use in class

• 436Chapter 1.ppt
• 436Chapter 1a.ppt
• 436Chapter 2.ppt
• 436Chapter 3.ppt
• 436Chapter 4.ppt
• 436Chapter 5.ppt
• 436Chapter 6.ppt
• 436Chapter 7.ppt
• 436Chapter 9.ppt

Lab handouts

• Intro to Lab Equipment.doc
• Introduction to electret microphones.doc
• Fourier Transforms.doc
• Moving Coil Loudspeaker.doc
• Waves on a wire.doc
• Waves in Bars.doc
• Membranes.doc
• Speed of Sound.doc
• Surface Interference.doc
• Beamforming using Airborne Ultrasonic Transducer 436.doc
• AJP Tucholski.pdf
• Cylindrical Cavity.doc
• Resonant Tube.doc
• Helmholtz.doc

Answers to quizes I have graded

• SP436 SHO Quiz
• SP436 1D Wave Eqn Quiz
• SP436 Sheet Poster Quiz

Answers to homework that I have graded and handed back

• SP436 HW 1
• SP436 HW 2
• SP436 HW 3 Ch2
• SP436 HW Ch 3
• SP436 HW Ch4

Some exams answers

• Answers to the first hour exam: SP436 Exam I fall AY2010
• Answers to the second hour exam: SP436 Exam II FAY2011
• Third hour exam: Canceled

Links

This is a link to the best acoustics animations I have seen.  Thanks to Dr. Russell.

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/demos.html

Here are a group of excellent physics applets you can manipulate to demonstrate vibrating objects, wave phenomena and other physics concepts.

http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html