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Appendix A: Basic Concepts in Acoustics and Noise
Appendix A: Basic Concepts in Acoustics and Noise
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. a microphone on a sound-level meter is generally converted A few key concepts are described in this appendix: to a mean square pressure or pressure level by the measur ing instrument.
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2. Given nection with instruments -- such as sound-level meter -- and the range of mean square pressures commonly encountered when the quantity being discussed could be either pressure, when dealing with noise, the sound pressure level generally intensity, or power.
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