Sound Frequency Ranges

Since 1945 an increasing understanding of the phenomenon of cavitation has developed coupled with significant developments in electronic circuitry and transducer design (i. e. devices which convert electrical to mechanical signals and vice versa). As a result of this there has been a rapid expansion in the application of power ultrasound to chemical processes, a subject which has become known as Sonochemistry . 

Conventional power ultraaound Eitterided range for sonochemistry Diagnostic ultrasound 

The first area involves low amplitude (higher frequency) sound and is concerned with the physical effect of the medium on the wave and is commonly referred to as low power or high frequency ultrasound . Typically, low amplitude waves are used for analytical purposes to measure the velocity and absorption coefficient of the wave in a medium in the 2 to 10 MHz range. Information from such measurements can used in medical imaging, chemical analysis and the study of relaxation phenomena and this will be dealt with later. 

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The easily accessible frequency range of sound and ultrasound waves confines the range of applicability of... 

The sound absorption of materials is frequency dependent most materials absorb more or less sound at some frequencies than at others. Sound absorption is usually measured in laboratories in 18 one-third octave frequency bands with center frequencies ranging from 100 to 5000 H2, but it is common practice to pubflsh only the data for the six octave band center frequencies from 125 to 4000 H2. SuppHers of acoustical products frequently report the noise reduction coefficient (NRC) for their materials. The NRC is the arithmetic mean of the absorption coefficients in the 250, 500, 1000, and 2000 H2 bands, rounded to the nearest multiple of 0.05. 

Earlier experiments indicate clearly that a lowered sound pressure level can be an effective measure to reduce the inconvenience reactions due to a ventilation noise, provided that it is targeted at the most critical frequency range from the point of view of influence or that the measure results in a general lowering over the entire spectral range of the ventilation noise. 

A sound is generally not a pure tone, as the latter is only emitted from particular sources. It can be demonstrated that a sound can be divided into different pure tones (superposition method). The waves at different frequencies give the spectrum of the sound, which also describes its energy distribution. In frequency analysis, the spectrum is divided into octave bands. An octave band is defined as the frequency range with its upper boundary twice the frequency of its lower boundary. For every octave band, a central band frequency ( f. ) is defined as follows ... 

It is important to remember that the response by a human ear to sound is different from that detected by scientific instruments, as the human ear is more sensitive in the middle frequency range than at the low and high frequencies at the same level. 

Audible sound has a frequency range of approximately 20 Hertz (Hz) to 20 kilohertz (kHz) and the pressure ranges from 20 x 10 N/M to 200 N/M. A pure tone produces the simplest type of wave form, that of a sine wave (Figure 42.1). The average pressure fluctuation is zero, and measurements are thus made in terms of the root mean square (rms) of the pressure variation. For the sine wave the rms is 0.707 times the peak value. 

Clinicians characterize tics by their anatomical location, number, frequency, and duration. The intensity or forcefulness of the tic can also be an important characteristic as some tics call attention to themselves simply by virtue of their exaggerated character. Finally, tics vary in terms of their complexity, which usually refers to how simple or involved a movement or sound is, ranging from brief, meaningless, abrupt fragments (simple tics) to ones that are longer, more involved, and seemingly more goal directed in character (complex tics). Each of these elements has been... 

The sound emitted from methanol boiling on a copper tube at 1 atm. has been measured (W2). No forced convection was used. Figure 10 shows how the sound, in total decibels for the frequency range of 25 to 7500 cycles/sec., varies with the temperature difference. Nucleate boiling... 

The human ear is sensitive to sound waves with frequencies ranging from 50 Hz up to 15 kHz. Given that the velocity of sound in air is 343 m s l, what are the wavelengths corresponding to these frequencies ... 

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