Everything about Acoustics
Branch of physics involving mechanical waves
Acoustics is a branch of continuum mechanics that deals with the study of 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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AcousticsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Topological acousticsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Science & musicThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acousticsCited 3,117 times
- Go sideways: Outline of acousticsA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Acoustical engineeringA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The science that studies sound, its nature, behavior, and the laws that govern it.
Noun The properties of a space that influence sound propagation.
Noun plural of acoustic
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Image method for efficiently simulating small-room acoustics
Dispersion-Relation-Preserving Finite Difference Schemes for Computational Acoustics
Topological Acoustics
Microscale acoustofluidics: Microfluidics driven via acoustics and ultrasonics
Isolation of exosomes from whole blood by integrating acoustics and microfluidics
Holograms for acoustics
Wavefront modulation and subwavelength diffractive acoustics with an acoustic metasurface
An overview of matched field methods in ocean acoustics
🆕 Influential since 2022
Topological acoustics
A second wave of topological phenomena in photonics and acoustics
Harmonic acoustics for dynamic and selective particle manipulation
A sound approach to advancing healthcare systems: the future of biomedical acoustics
Application of nanogenerators in acoustics based on artificial intelligence and machine learning
📚 Books worth reading
Science & musicJames Hopwood Jeans · 1937
Collected papers on acousticsWallace Clement Sabine · 1922
Room acousticsHeinrich Kuttruff · 1973
The physics of musicAlexander Wood · 1944
Live AudioDave Swallow · 2010
Master Handbook of AcousticsF. Alton Everest, Ken C. Pohlmann · 1981
The physics of musical instrumentsNeville H. Fletcher · 1991
Acoustics and PsychoacousticsDavid Howard, David M. Howard · 2000
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🔗 Related topics
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- Sound from ultrasound Sound from ultrasound refers to the generation of audible sound from modulated ultrasound. Two distinct mechanisms have been demonstrated. In the first…
- John Ffowcs Williams John "Shôn" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams (25 May 1935 – 12 December 2020) was Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former…
- Parametric array A parametric array, in the field of acoustics, is a nonlinear transduction mechanism that generates narrow, nearly side lobe-free beams of low frequency…