Acoustics and Sound Production

Akustyka i realizacja dźwięku

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⇑Acoustics and Sound Production at UJD

Field of studies: Physics

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: physical science, environment

Kind of studies: full-time studies

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University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

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Acoustics

Acoustics is the branch of physics that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of modern society with the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

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Sound

In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.

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Sound

If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?

Source unknown, but apparently originating in the twentieth century; a 1910 physics book asks "When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is near by to hear it, does it make a sound? Why?" Charles Riborg Mann, George Ransom Twiss, Physics (1910), p. 235. See also: If a tree falls in a forest.

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Sound

What's the business,
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley
The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak!

William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act II, scene 3, line 86.

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Sound

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage, "Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures given in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence. Many of Cage's works use sounds traditionally regarded as unmusical (radios not tuned to any particular station, for instance): he really did believe that the sound of a truck and the sounds made in a factory had just as much musical worth as the sounds made in a music school. There is also a suggestion expressed in the quote that in order to determine the artistic worth of something, it is necessary to examine the context in which it exists.

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