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brownian motion   random high-speed movement of molecules due to their inherent energy (air)  
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Dyne   unit of measure for force and pressure  
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MKS system   meters kilo grams and seconds  
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cgs system   centimeters, grams and seconds  
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microbar   measurement of dynes per centimeter squared  
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newtons   unit of measure of force in the metric system  
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pascal   unit of measure of pressure in the metric system  
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flow   movement of air through a particulr area in a certain interval of time  
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volume velocity   the speed of volume of air traveling in a certain direction  
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driving pressure   difference between high-and low-pressure areas that causes air to flow between these areas.  
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laminar flow   air that flows smoothly , with molecules moving in a parallel manner and at the same spped  
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turbulent flow   occurs when an obstacle in the airs way disturbs the flow  
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volume   amount of space occupied in three dimentsions  
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density   amount of mass per unit of volume  
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boyle's law   as the volume of the enclosed space decreases, the pressure of the air increases, given a constant air temperature.  
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compression   displaced molecules pushing against their neighbors increasing the density of air creating an area of positive pressure  
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rarefaction   increased distance between molecules, decreased density of air, lower pressure  
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elasticity   a restoring force, refers to the property of an object to be able to spring back to its original size, form, location and shape  
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inertia   tendecy of matter to remain at rest or in motion unless acted on by an outside force  
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hooke's law   the restoring force is proportional to the distance of displacement and acts in the opposite direction  
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amplitude   maximum distance away from rest position that the molecule is displaced, which is detemined by the amount of energy involved in the movement  
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damping   decrease of amplitude, occures due to friction and causes an object to vibrate with less amplitude  
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wave front   outermost area of the wave that is traveling spherically through the air  
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wavefrom   a graph with time along the hoizontal axis and amplitude alng the vertical axis that is used to represent pressure changes over time  
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frequency   the number of cycles per second at which objects or air vibrate  
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hertz   unit of measurement of frequency  
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period   the time that each cycle in a wave takes to occur  
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reciprocal   period and frequency  
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perodic wave   one in which each cycle takes the same amount of time to occur (could be a pitch on a musical scale)  
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aperiodic   individual cycles do not take the same anount of time to occur  
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wavelength   the distance covered by one complete cycle of pressure change, measurement of the travel of a sound wave.  
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incident wave   a sound wave that is generated, travels a certain distance and then hits up against a boundary  
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absorbtion   damping of a wave  
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reflection   a wave collides with a boundary that is hard and smooth, and travels in the opposite direction  
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interference   when two or more waves combine with eah over  
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constructive interference   results in increased amplitude  
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destuctive interference   decreases the amplitude of the wave  
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phase   relative timing of compression and rarefactions of waves  
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reverberation   when reflected sound waves extend the duration of an incident sound.  
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simple harmonic motion (SHM)   regular, smooth, back and forth movement with its characteristic pattern of accelerationthrough the rest position and deceleration at the endpoints of the movement  
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pure tone   a sound with only one frequency, generated by a source vibrating SHM  
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complex sound   contain two or more frequencies and may be periodic or aperiodic  
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periodic complex sound   consist of a series of frequencies that are systemaatically related to eah other.  
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fundamental frequency   the lowest frequency in a complex periodic sound  
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harmonics   higher frequencies in periodic complex sounds  
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fourier analysis   how harmonics in a complex peiodic sound can be identified  
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continuous aperiodic complex sound   prolonged (escaping steam)  
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transient aperiodic complex sound   brief in duration (person hitting hand on desk)  
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spectrum   a graph with frequency along the horizontal axis and amplitude along the vertical axis  
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continous spectrum   displays the frequency content of aperiodic sounds  
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line specturm   displays the frequency content of periodic sounds  
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sinusoid   smooth, varying shape wave form  
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spectrum   snapshot, no time involved  
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mels   measurement of pitch  
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frequency at which an object vibrates   depends on mass, length and tension  
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subsonic   frequencies below the range of human hearing  
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supersonic   frequencies above the range of human hearing  
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amplitude   the mount of motion of a vibrating object or the amount of pressure change generated by the motion of the object measured in microbar or micropascals  
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intensity   the power of sound measured in W/m2 the square of amplitiude  
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phon scale   the sacle that resulted form matching sounds of varying frequencies and intensities to the 100 Hz tone  
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decibel scale   logarithmic ratio scale that compares the amplitude and/or intensity of any sound to a standard reference sound  
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linear scale   ruler, thermometer distance between units indication equal increments  
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logarithmic scale   units that increase by greater and greater amounts. cannot be added or subtracted  
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ratio scale   reflects a relationship between quantities  
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threshold of hearing   indicates the softest sound of a particular frequency that a pair of normal human ears can hear 50 percent of the time under ideal listening conditions  
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0 db   threshold of hearing  
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auditiory area   complete range of human hearing in terms of frequency and intensity bounded by the threshold of hearing and the threshold of pain  
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resonant frequency   the rate at which an object vibrates freely and depends on its physical characteristics  
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applied frequency   the wave that forces a resonator into vibration  
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mechanical resonator   thi actual object itself is set into vibration  
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axoustic resonator   a container filled with air (enormously important in speech production)  
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bandwidth of a resonator   the range of frequencies that it will transmit  
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sharply tuned resonator   a narrow bandwidth  
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broadly tuned resonator   will respons very quickly to the applied frequencies, but the vibrations will fade more quickly  
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cutoff frequency   the point at which a resonator becomes unresponsive to an applied frequency  
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resonance curve (transfer function)   a graph with frequency on the horizontal axis and realative amplitude on the vertical axis. depicts the repsons of a resonator to any applied frequency.  
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natural or center frequency   resonant frequency of a system that results in the greatest amplitude of vibration  
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attenuation rate   the rate at which the resonator's amplitude of response is attenuated.  
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low pass filter   passes acoustic energy below a specific upper cutoff frequency  
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high pass filter   transmits energy above a specific lower cutoff frequency  
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