Acoustics C2 Past Board Excel

1. ECE Board Exam April 2001

9. ECE Board Exam November 1996

What do you call the speed of sound in the

Speaker is a device that ___________

study of acoustics?

converts current variations into sound

Tempo

waves
10. ECE Board Exam March 1996

2. ECE Board Exam November 2000

One-hundred twenty bars of pressure

In the study of acoustics, the velocity of sound

variation is equal to

is dependent to one of the following:

Properties of the medium
3. ECE Board Exam Apri1 2000
How much bigger in storage capacity has
digital video disk (DVD) have over the
conventional compact disk (CD)?
Around 15 times
4. ECE Board Exam November 1999
A sound intensity that could cause painful
sensation in a human ear

11. ECE Board Exam April 2000

Threshold of pain

The term that describes the highness or

5. ECE Board Exam April 1999

lowness of a sound in the study of acoustics is

Which of the following is the hearing range of

called a

the human ear?

Pitch

The range of the human hearing is from 20

Hz to 20 kHz

12. ECE Board Exam November 1999

6. ECE Board Exam April 1998

The method of measuring absorption

An instrument for recording waveforms of

coefficient of sound which considers all angles

audio frequency.

of incidence is called

Phonoscope

reverberation chamber method

7. ECE Board Exam November 1997/April 2000

Designates the sensation of low or high in the

13. ECE Board Exam March 1996

sense of the base and treble.

The midrange frequency range of sound is

Pitch

from

8. ECE Board Exam April 1997

256 to 2048 Hz

The sound energy per unit area at right angles

to the propagation direction per unit time.
Sound intensity

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14. ECE Board Exam November 1997

21. ECE Board Exam April 1999

A large speaker having a large diameter (15

Which of the following is considered the most

cm and above).

commonly used measurable components of

Woofer

sound?

15. ECE Board Exam April 1997

Particle displacement

_______ is the transmission of sound from

22. ECE Board Exam April 1997

one to an adjacent room thru common walls,

Lowest frequency produced by a musical

floors or ceilings.

instrument.

Flanking transmission

Fundamental

16. ECE Board Exam November 1996

23. ECE Board Exam November 1997

___________ is the advantage rate of

Sound intensity is given as

transmission of sound energy in a given

dP/dA

direction through a cross sectional area of 1

24. ECE Board Exam April 1997

sq. m. at right angle to the direction.

Tendency of sound energy to spread

Sound intensity

Diffraction

17. ECE Board Exam November 1997

25. ECE Board Exam November 1997

A method of expressing the amplitude of a

The lowest frequency produced by an

complex non-periodic signals such as speech.

instrument.

Volume

Fundamental

18. ECE Board Exam April 1997

26. ECE Board Exam March 1996

The sound power level of a jet plane flying at

A car horn outdoors produces a sound

a height of 1 km is 160 dB (re 10^-12). What

intensity level of 90 dB at 10 ft away. At

is the maximum sound pressure level on the

distance, what is the sound power in watt?

ground directly below the plane assuming that

the aircraft radiates sound equally in all
directions?

19. ECE Board Exam November 1996

The unit of pitch.
Mel
20. ECE Board Exam November 1997/April 1997
The tendency of the sound energy to spread.
Diffraction

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